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The groups most likely to support President Roosevelt's

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actions in this image would be... who?

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All right, and here are your potential answers.

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[ mumbles ]

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All right, well, here we go.

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Roosevelt's request for more power really ruffled the aprons

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of the other cooks in the governmental kitchen.

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Let's see which group would have been more-than-okay

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with Roosevelt's plan to spice things up a bit.

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Would President Roosevelt's actions have been supported by

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A - the Supreme Court?

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Well, actually, one of Roosevelt's proposed reforms was

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a plan to reorganize the Supreme Court, to which the Justices

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basically replied, "Uh,

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no soup for you."

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All right, so it's not A.

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Would Roosevelt have been supported by B -

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conservative politicians?

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Well, conservative politicians were horror-struck

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by the idea of so many radical economic reforms.

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So they would have not-so-conservatively opposed

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Roosevelt's efforts.

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Would Roosevelt have likely been backed by D - Congress?

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Well, since Congress was partially comprised of

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those conservative politicians we just talked about,

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that esteemed body made a huge point of

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limiting FDR's New Deal.

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Which means Roosevelt's governmental aims would've

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been supported by C - labor unions.

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Labor unions liked the idea of giving Roosevelt

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all the power he wanted, since his economic reforms

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were aimed at the creation of new jobs at any price.

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So C is the right answer.

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FDR was a good guy, but with all these requests

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for power, he was pretty much saying, "Guys, that'll be fine,

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just let me make all the decisions."

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That's more like checks and imbalances.

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[ groaning ]

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