The following quote come from Raymond Moley, a man close to the President in his run up to FDRs winning his second terms in office. It comes from the book, “New Deal or Raw Deal”, by Burton Folsom, Jr., a book I highly recommend as a companion to Amity Schlaes, “The Forgotten Man”, if you have any historic interest in the era that brought about the advance of progressivism inside the United States.

“I was impressed as never before by the utter lack of logic of the man, the scantiness of his precise knowledge of things that he was talking about, by the gross inaccuracies in his statements, by the almost pathological lack of sequence in his discussion, by the complete rectitude that he felt as to his own conduct, by the immense and growing egotism that came from his office, by his willingness to continue the excoriation of…business in order to get votes for himself, by his indifference to what effect the long-continued pursuit of these ends would have upon the civilization in which he was playing a part. In other words, the political habits of his mind were working full steam with the added influence of a swollen ego. My deliberate impression is that he is dangerous in the extreme, and I view the next four years with no inconsiderable apprehension.”

Thus begins the article, “Dangerous in the Extreme”. I highly recommend viewing this article along with others that are available in his well constructed and thought out blog. You may not agree with some of the author, C. August’s viewpoints or conclusions, but you won’t be disappointed in the quality of information presented.