After the proposed legislation was announced, public reaction was spli...
wikipedia - 27 Oct 2020After the proposed legislation was announced, public reaction was split. Since the Supreme Court was generally conflated with the U.S. Constitution itself,[57] the proposal to change the Court brushed up against this wider public reverence.[58] Roosevelt's personal involvement in selling the plan managed to mitigate this hostility. In a Democratic Victory Dinner speech on March 4, Roosevelt called for party loyalists to support his plan.