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54. James Roosevelt and Sidney Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R. 264 (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1959).

55. ER to FDR, November 22, 1936, quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 487.

56. Roosevelt and Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R. 284.

57. “Possibly I should have been sufficiently mature and considerate enough of Father’s position to have withdrawn from the insurance business entirely,” wrote James. “But I was young, ambitious, and spoiled so I went right ahead in pursuit of what seemed to me the easiest solution.” Ibid. 218.

58. William O. Douglas, Go East, Young Man 302 (New York: Random House, 1974). Cf. James Roosevelt, My Parents: A Differing View 245–246 (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1976).

59. Roosevelt and Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R. 310–311.

60. Ted Morgan, FDR: A Biography 464 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985). Also see Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 495.

61. Morgenthau Diary, December 6, 8, 1938. FDRL.

62. Elliott Roosevelt interview, cited in Peter Collier with David Horowitz, The Roosevelts: An American Saga 371 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994).

63. Lillian Rogers Parks, The Roosevelts: A Family in Turmoil 142 (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981).

64. Quoted in Morgan, FDR 459.

65. Elliott Roosevelt and James Brough, A Rendezvous with Destiny: The Roosevelts of the White House 39 (New York: Putnam, 1975).

66. Joseph P. Lash interview with Anna Halstead, quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 490. “When I called [FDR] from Chicago and told him Elliott was going to marry right away, he was very annoyed, but his annoyance was at Elliott’s doing it so quickly.”

67. The New York Times, October 7, 8, 1936.

68. Ibid.

69. Elliott Roosevelt, Rendezvous with Destiny 37 ff.

70. Quoted in Collier, The Roosevelts 362.

71. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 489.

72. Roosevelt and Shalett, Affectionately, F.D.R. 305.

73. For The New York Times’ front-page coverage, see August 18 and August 19, 1937.

74. Quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 492. Also see The New York Times, August 21, 1937.

75. The act provided for a gradual two-year phase-in and allowed numerous exemptions. See Paul Douglas and Joseph Hackman, “The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938,” 53 Political Science Quarterly 491–515 (1938).

76. Michael Barone, Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan 117 (New York: Free Press, 1990).

77. Hill received 90,601 votes to Heflin’s 50,189. Congressional Quarterly, Guide to U.S. Elections 909 (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1975).

78. For the full text, see Farley, Jim Farley’s Story 120–121.

79. Ibid. 121.

80. Davis, FDR: Into the Storm 239–240.

81. Professor James T. Patterson provides a useful table of the support senators gave the New Deal in the Appendix (pages 348–349) of his Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967). Gillette’s voting record indicates he supported the New Deal three quarters of the time. That was better than twenty-three of his Democratic colleagues.

82. Davis, FDR: Into the Storm 249.

83. The Indianapolis Star, June 6, 1938.

84. 7 Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt 391–400, Samuel I. Rosenman, ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1941).

85. Farley, Jim Farley’s Story 125.

86. 7 Public Papers and Addresses 432–439, at 438.

87. The unofficial results of the August 9 Kentucky primary showed Barkley with 274,131; Chandler 184,266. Mrs. Chandler, with down-home directness, said she hoped her husband would quit politics. “You know, you can’t make any money in politics, especially when you’re a psychopathic case of honesty such as Happy is.” Louisville Courier-Journal, August 9, 1938, quoted in Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 267n.

88. Quoted in Thomas L. Stokes, Chip off My Shoulder 536 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1940). Stokes, a Scripps-Howard syndicated columnist, broke the Kentucky story in a series of eight articles that won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize.

89. Patterson,