The descendants of the FDR administration are determined to polish the legacy of America’s 32nd president by pushing the 46th to embrace a legislative agenda as transformational as the New Deal
In the FDR Zoom, time echoes indistinctly between 1933 and 2021, fixed in a state of looking back in order to look forward. They appear in doubles, representing themselves and their ancestors. Behind him on Zoom, Roosevelt’s face is framed by a bust of his grandfather. Over his right shoulder, Wallace has one of his grandfather. They are, as Roosevelt Jr. put it by accident during their recent meeting, living “here in the 20th Century.
“We both support what President Biden is doing and try to provide the encouragement and the underpinning for him to go even farther,” said Roosevelt Jr, an attorney who chairs the Democratic Party’s rules and bylaws committee, “rather than compromise down.”As he spoke, he shared his computer screen with the rest of the group on Zoom, pulling up Twitter. Next to the sidebar of trending topics—Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Republicans purged from the Jan.
Then Democratic presidential nominee Franklin D. Roosevelt and three of his sons wave to friends ashore in July 1932. James Roosevelt, in the top right, is the father of James Roosevelt Jr., who is working to keep the legacy of the New Deal alive. | AP Photo “We’ve not been invited to the White House,” Roosevelt Jr. said. “But certainly we see indirectly a lot of evidence that what we’ve advocated is showing up.”
“He ran on a balanced budget!” said FDR’s grandson. “And it turned out that’s not what was called for.” The group laughed.
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