Franklin Roosevelt #11: Second Term Setbacks (1937-1940); Topics covered include: New Deal legislation declared unconstitutional, proposes to "pack" the Supreme Court (including opposition and failure), Court begins to concur with New Deal legislation, refuses to advocate for anti-lynching legislation, cuts back in Federal spending leading to economic setbacks including large increase in unemployment, re-institutes large scale federal spending, seeks purge of incumbent Democrats in 1938 midterms, and perspective on the New Deal (successes and failures)

Key people include: Homer Cummings, Stanley Reed, William Allen White, Mark Sullivan, Burton Wheeler, Charles Hughes, Owen Robert, Willis Van Devanter, Alben Barkley, Pat Harrison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Walter White, John O'Connor, Ray Moley, and Herbert Hoover

Corrections: Reference should be for six weeks (not six months) at 0:18. Reference should be for Congress (not the Supreme Court) at 7:04. Reference should be for private (not public) at 10:40. Reference should be for misuse (not use) at 12:41.

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