David T. Beito

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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci · The Dark Side of FDR Nobody Talks About - David T. Beito · 2 Jun 2026 podcast

I got my New Deal priority.

And it goes on year after year after year, and it never happens.

Finally, this is 1940, FDR's vice president is thinking of running for president, John Nance Garner, who was a conservative Texan.

And Garner says, at a cabinet meeting or somewhere, FDR found out about it, said, well, we have to do something about lynching.

Lynching has gone too far.

Okay, FDR's response to that, given to an ally, James Farley, is to start saying, look, Garner said this?

Can you imagine Garner?

And he goes into uncontrollable laughter.

And this is a story that you hear from others.

He thought it was just hilarious.

Garner's doing this.

Now, what would you do if you truly cared about that issue?

I think you'd say, well, gee whiz, a conservative Texan who's very powerful in Congress, my vice president Garner, he was a hands-on vice president, unlike Truman.

He's willing to do something.

Maybe we can get this through.

Two years before that, he put it on the back burner because of the court packing.

So it never happened.

But he successfully more or less strung the NAACP along with Eleanor kind of being a secret weapon.

I think Eleanor was sincere.

I think she wanted to do something.

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