Opponents at Home and Abroad

Pederson, William D. (editor) / Lee, Joseph Edward (author)

A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt ; 206-221

Blackwell Companions to American History

2011-03-25

16 pages

9781444395181 , 9781444330168

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395181.ch11

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Roosevelt, envisioning a new role for government ‐ with himself as the lead actor , Lindbergh, criticizing Roosevelt for a failure ‐ to accept Germany, as a Western civilization like the United States , Franklin D. Roosevelt, wrestling ‐ with a multitude of challenges, domestic and foreign , Roosevelt, his legs paralyzed by polio, standing on crutches ‐ before the party's delegates, christened Smith “the Happy Warrior” , survey of Franklin Roosevelt's foes ‐ beginning within his own family tree, close to home , Longworth criticizing “The Washington Dictatorship” ‐ taking aim at the president's policies and his personal life , Long's criticism of the president, increasing in ferocity ‐ supporting formation in 1934, of the Share Our Wealth Society, merging eventually with the America First Committee , Roosevelt, heroically adjusting to his paralysis ‐ helping Smith, to win the party's presidential nomination in 1928, the same year that FDR secured for himself the New York governorship , opponents at home and abroad