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In reply to the discussion: Party Loyalty [View all]H2O Man
(73,536 posts)He was appointed for 5-year terms. His term came up after FDR died. The 1% despised him. So the new president, with help from those in Congress who served as "big oil's" lap dogs, attacked him. Viciously.
When Leland was a journalist, and a railroad union advocate, lots of newspapers carried his writings. That included some socialist newspapers. LBJ made a big deal out of this, at a time when one of his republican friends was stirring the "red scare" in DC. Nixon, of course, had perfected McCartyism, before Joe thought of it -- to paraphrase Rick Perlstein.
(My father's family were all railroaders and union leaders, since my Grandfather came from the Old Sod. One of my great aunts knew Olds quite well at that time, and when he worked for Governor Roosevelt in NYS.)