David T. Beito

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So some of my sources have devastating things to say about FDR.

Truman is an example.

Francis Biddle is another.

But then they were kind of admirers of FDR, too, because they thought he had accomplished great things.

great things.

And I think treachery is one where one can use the anti-lynching bill as kind of an example of that.

Yeah.

Well, FDR, of course, takes office in 1933.

And his wife, Eleanor, is good friends with Walter White, not the breaking bad Walter White.

They headed the NAACP.

And White wants an anti-lynching bill because there have been some very gruesome stories recently.

People like being literally burned alive, right?

Burned at stake.

I mean, that's what a lynching was.

We had a sort of stereotype of just you string up someone on a tree.

No, it was pretty brutal stuff.

Anyway, he goes to FDR through Eleanor and he says, look, could you push for an anti-lynching bill, which it actually passed Congress in 1923.

It had stalled in the Senate, but it actually passed the House.

If there was ever a time something like that could be brought through, it was then.

FDR kept saying, well, maybe we'll do it next year.

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