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Stop Throwing Pop Bottles at the Umpire!
Letters to President Roosevelt Concerning the Court Packing Proposal
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Washington, D.C.
February 21, 1937
Dear Mr. President:

Please stop throwing pop-bottles at the umpire. The Supreme Court is only calling them as it honestly sees them. The fair solution of your problem is not to replace the umpire with your own hand-picked selection (in whom there would be no confidence for they would lack independence) but to amend the rules of the game.

We don't even want benevolent dictators and a less benevolent successor of yours might all too easily decide to follow your precedent.

Yours for better sportsmanship

A-- N-- D--, Jr.
White Plains, New York

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