but in 1939 the last thursday fell on november 30th. now, at the time the country was still dragging itself out of the great depression and roosevelt, a democrat, feerd that a shortened holiday shopping season would be bad for retailers, so he decided to issue an executive proclamation moving the holiday one week earlier. now, the move was designed to help the country, it divided it instead. that it benefitted only large retailers, college football coaches were livid. many schools had scheduled big homecoming games for an original holiday only to discover the games would now be played on a random weekday that was no longer thanksgiving and everyone would be at work. the move so angered one arkansas coach he threatened to change parties and vote republican. fdr s political adversaries pounced. maine s governor refused to carve a banquet turkey and
but in 1939, the last thursday fell on november 30th. at the time the country was still dragging itself out of the great depression and roosevelt, a democrat, feared that a shortened holiday shopping season would be bad for retailers. so he decided to issue an executive proclamation moving the holiday one week earlier. now, although the move was designed to help the country, it divided it instead. small businesses threw a fit claiming the shift did nothing to help their bottom line, that it benefited only large retailers. college football coaches were livid. many schools had scheduled big home coming games for the original holiday only to discover the games would now be played on a random weekday that was no longer thanksgiving and everyone would be at work. the move so angered one arkansas coach that he threatened to change parties and vote republican. f.d.r. s political adversaries pounced. maine s governor refused to carve a turkey at a banquet scheduled on the new earlier date. he
his problems with rosenstein in the past. shep? shepard: just in, the aclu is suing to block president trump s order that denies asylum to migrants if they cross the border without documentation. this would be a direct challenge and not unexpected. no, not unexpected. what is not unexpected, this was filed in san francisco, which just happens to be in the jurisdiction of the ninth circuit court of appeals which yesterday ruled against the president on the deferred action for childhood arrivals program. the president saying he signed the executive proclamation to change the rules regarding asylum and the people now who enter the country illegally would no longer be able to claim asylum. listen here. we need some votes from the democrats or we need support from the democrats and hopefully they see what is going on. the republican this is happening is we ve created such a
testimony. you could send him looking down at his watch. i regret the decision. i m sorry. steve: look at you. as timely as today s headlines. you have been very clear what the attorney general was quoting is you were saying that barack obama didn t have the authority to do what he did he did what he did anyway. that s right. many of us warned the democrats that they were creating this type of uber presidency under president obama and allowing him to essentially go it alone to take unilateral action. daca was always a legislative app. it was done by executive proclamation. but he tried to get this program through congress and failed. and he turned around and decided he would do it himself that s not an option for a president. this is going back to where it should have remained which is in congress. steve: sure. and the president simply cannot write laws on his own. so essentially president trump is giving congress a do-over, isn t he? that s exactly right.