The House of Representatives that was convening January of 1944 was composed of thirty additional Democrats - but this was small comfort to the President and his allies on the Hill; after eight years of practice, the opposition party had learned how to play the game:
"There was hope in the administration that these changes might have broken the old coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats, which so often in the past had stood in the way of presidential wishes."
A 1938 article about the hardships of the Southern States during the Great Depression can be read here...
Click here to read President Hoover's farewell warning to the nation.
