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FDR and the Supreme Court
(Written on letterhead):
Dear Mr. President:
In the name of all other young men who must live through the inevitable swing of the pendulum form radical through liberal and reactionary phases of government in the future, I pray that you will not put in the hands of future enemies of liberalism such weapons of power as the precedent set by your recent Court Proposal would do. If constitutional changes must be made, let us do it in an honest way that will not set dangerous precedents capable of future injustice.
It is significant, I think, that your former staunch friends, the youth of the nation, almost unanimously scorn this proposal, not only for its own defects, but because it was more indirectly advanced than the honesty of youth can condone.
Respectfully,
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