 | John Field, Mal Leicester - 2003 - 348 strani
...American people' : Johnson, l966: 570) and wem on to ask Congress for the: one remaining instrumem to meet the crisis — broad executive power to wage...emergency as great as the power that would be given me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe. (Commager, l963: 242) Under the slogan 'Relief, Recovery,... | |
 | Benjamin Leontief Alpers - 2003 - 422 strani
...take such action, he warned, "I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis— broad Executive power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe." The speech concluded with a... | |
 | George Henry Bennett - 2004 - 276 strani
...emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument...to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe. For full speech see The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Vol. 2 (New York, Random... | |
 | Julian E. Zelizer - 2004 - 800 strani
...Congress for the power to act himself: "for the one remaining instrument to meet the emergency — broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency,...to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe." Eleanor Roosevelt, sitting behind her husband on the inaugural platform, momentarily shuddered at the... | |
 | Alonzo L. Hamby, Professor of History Alonzo Hamby - 2004 - 528 strani
...currency." He would call Congress into special session and ask for strong authority — if necessary, for "broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency,...to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe." Democracy would prevail. The people had not failed. "They have asked for discipline and direction under... | |
 | Daniel A. Greenberg - 2003 - 264 strani
...shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for ... broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency,...to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe. — From Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933, in Works of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Available at the New... | |
 | Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry - 2004 - 221 strani
...Roosevelt called "the national emergency" "critical," and said that if necessary he would ask Congress for "power to wage a war against the emergency, as great...to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe." 69 Al Smith, the ex-governor of New York and FDR rival, said that the depression was "doing more damage... | |
 | Bruce Ramsey - 2015 - 208 strani
...shall ask Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis—broad executive power to make war against the emergency, as great as the power that...to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe." It is true that people wanted action. That they were in a mood to accept any pain-killer and damn the... | |
 | Arthur Meier Schlesinger - 2004 - 630 strani
...constitutional amendment. He is more likely to say, as Franklin Roosevelt said in his first inaugural, "I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument...Executive power to wage a war against the emergency." XIII Even if a conversion to parliamentarian ism were possible, there is little reason to suppose it... | |
 | William E. Scheuerman - 2004 - 328 strani
...and Japan, were justified by Roosevelt's revealing 1933 declaration of the need for "undelayed . . . Executive power to wage a war against the emergency,...as great as the power that would be given to me if in fact invaded by a foreign foe."99 Linking the economic crisis of the 19305 to foreign invasion,... | |
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I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis — broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe. 
