The Good Neighbor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of American Power

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Notes

1. Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933,” in Public Papers and Addresses of the Presidents of the United States: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Volume II “The Year of Crisis, 1933,” (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1941), 14.

2. Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933,” Public Papers, 2:11.

3. Stuckey refers to the following speech in this passage: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “A Labor Day Statement by the President, September 5, 1937,” Public Papers, 6:349–50.

4. Stuckey makes this observation in few instances. They mostly concern how FDR's rhetoric toward the Axis powers shaped his rhetoric at home. For instance, in her section on invective she notes Roosevelt's association of anti-interventionists with Nazis (118–19).

5. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The Imperial Presidency (1973; Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004).

6. Dana D. Nelson makes a similar argument in Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008). Stuckey's contribution is that she examines a president upon whom Schlesinger looks favorably for acting mostly within the constraints of the Constitution. See Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The Imperial Presidency (1973; Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004), 112–13.