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FDR and the Supreme Court
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
As a registered Democrat and now particularly, as a resident of your own state and a citizen interested in maintaining constitutional government in this country, I wish most emphatically to protest against your proposals to "pack" the Supreme Court. I could scarcely believe, until I heard your own words at the Democratic Victory Dinner, that you really advocated such a dangerous un-American, and short-sighted program. Your speech, however, which was disingenuous and intellectually dishonest in the extreme, completely spoiled for me the occasion celebrated and shattered my confidence in you, and in your leadership. You could have chosen no more effective way of disillusioning the millions who expected to find in you those qualities of statesmanship which your high office requires.
Altho it will probably be impossible for you to regain the complete confidence of the American people, it is not too late to repair in part, the mischief that you have started by advocating attainment of change in our political and economic life by orderly constitutional amendment.
Sincerely yours,
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