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| Program Number | S0529 |
| Title | The Roosevelt Legacy |
| PBS Number | 1218 |
| Moderator | - |
| Host | Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008. |
| Guest(s) | 1) Prichard, Edward F. - sometime FDR braintruster |
| Taped on | Oct 27, 1982 (Lexington, KY) |
| Broadcast Date | Nov 12, 1982 |
| Duration | 60 minutes (or hh:mm:ss) |
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| Summary | Mr. Prichard was a dazzlingly Bright Young Man when he went to Washington in 1940; he never came to the prominence predicted for him because in 1949 he was convicted of vote fraud for stuffing a ballot box. But he proves a delightful and very acute reminiscer about those heady days beginning when, at age 30, he found himself, as WFB puts it, "in almost daily contact with President Roosevelt." EFP: "The NRA [National Recovery Administration], I think, as one of the [Court] opinions said, was delegation of power run riot. And I think the NRA was largely a failure." WFB: "Mr. Roosevelt called it 'the most important and far-reaching legislation ever enacted by any American President.'" EFP: "Typical puffery.... Presidents can be silly, even the greatest ones." |
| Subject Heading(s) | Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Frankline Delano), 1882-1945. United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. New Deal, 1933-1939. Prichard, E. F. (Edward Fretwell) |
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| Transcript | Download transcript (80040_s0529_trans.pdf) |
