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Frankfurter Letter to Roosevelt, 2/7/37

Classification: Court Packing
Publication:
Date: February 7, 1937
Author: Frankfurter, Felix
Type: Letter

Yes, you "shocked" me by the deftness of the general scheme for dealing with the mandate for national action which you received three times, in '32 and '34 and '36, and each time with increasing emphasis. You "shocked" me no less by the dramatic, untarnis

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