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Josiah Bailey and the Creation of a Post-World War II Conservatism Commentary

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had many fans, but North Carolina Senator Josiah Bailey, an author of the Conservative Manifesto of 1937, was not one.  In a letter to anti-New Dealer Senator Peter G. Gerry of Rhode Island, Bailey wrote, “Our President is not actuated by principle, but by fears.  He will try to head off anything in order that he may stay at the head.”

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