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he was a united states senator who is recognized by his peers as one of the greatest senators in history. ground advocating for free speech. he was about the people. after the civil war, america .hanged radically we had concentrations of wealth, concerninequality, about the influence of money in government. senators were elected by legislatures. quds sums of money went into those campaigns. progressives were especially interested in changing symptoms. they were concerned the game was fixed. they wanted everyone to be on the same starting line. he went on to be a conventional congressman. he was called into the office of another senator. involved in a case which was going to be tried by his brother-in-law. forffered him a retainer legal advice. here is $50. you will get more if the case comes out right. he said, i am being bribed here. he got up and walked out. he went to ever kind of event that you could imagine and built a reputation for himself. by 1900, he was read ....
i m i did a book on a liberal president and a conservative court. have you ever heard of any of those? well, of course you have. but it s not the present liberal president and a conservative court. it is the president franklin roosevelt and the hughes court of the 1930s. indeed, it was 75 years ago this month that franklin roosevelt announced his court packing plan which is the subject of much of my book. i ll talk to in a moment. the clash between roosevelt and hughes at a critical time in american history is a great story and an important one. also it raises questions that were important 75 years ago and are important today. one being whether life tenured justices, conservative justices of the supreme court can thwart the popular will. alternatively, whether a popularly elected president can try to bend the court to his political policies. and those are questions and issues that are with us today as they were 75 years ago. first let me tell you a little bit about ro ....
five police officers approaching. they grabbed me and beat me. effigyt two of madison s mounds built by native americans thousands of years ago to honor the dead. these can be considered a kind of tombstone. they mark the graves of the dead and are carved in the shapes of just asand spirits, sometimes you see modern headstones carved in the shapes of urns or other architectural things. the campus has more mounds than any other place in the world that i am aware of. explore the man considered to be the leader of the progressive movement. everyone.s work for it is large, it is a glorious service. the call comes to every citizen. it is an unending struggle to make and keep government representative. is probablyllette the most important political figure in wisconsin history and one of the most important in the history of the 20th century of the united states. he was a reforming governor. he defined what aggressive is and is progressivism is. senator united states who ....
autocratic. we ask just went through the impeachment trial where the house managers went on and on about abuse of power. what cops to my mind is franklin roosevelt, the great hero of the radical democrat progressive movement, every person who is running for president thinks f.d.r. is their great hero. you are an expert on f.d.r. when i think of f.d.r. i think of abuse of power on many, many levels. am i wrong? mark: give us some examples, how long was he president? he was elected four times, though he died in his fourth term. he was president for a little over 1 years. that was a break with the past, wasn t it? it was. mark: washington set the two terms and everybody followed that. theodore roosevelt was a big progressive, but franklin roosevelt was different. he went father and he was less principled than teddy roosevelt. he mastered the concept of we call it quid pro quo. a it for that, tarring a tit for tat. then those voting groups vote for him, and then a c ....
you consider socialism is a to s autocratic. we ask just went through the impeachment trial where the house managers went on and on about abuse of power. what cops to my mind is franklin roosevelt, the great hero of the radical democrat progressive movement, every person who is running for president thinks f.d.r. is their great hero. you are an expert on f.d.r. when i think of f.d.r. i think of abuse of power on many, many levels. am i wrong? mark: give us some examples, how long was he president? he was elected four times, though he died in his fourth term. he was president for a little over 1 years. that was a break with the past, wasn t it? it was. mark: washington set the two terms and everybody followed that. theodore roosevelt was a big progressive, but franklin roosevelt was different. he went father and he was less principled than teddy roosevelt. he mastered the concept of we call it quid pro quo. a it for that, tarring a tit for tat. then those voting ....