ABSTRACT
Walter Lippmann's disenchantment mounted over the summer, and in the fall of 1930 he told Frankfurter that Herbert Hoover had a "bad temperament" for public office. Franklin Roosevelt coddled Tammany and showed petty jealousy toward Al Smith, Lippmann charged. "He has never thought much, or understood much, about the great subjects which must concern the next President," and was really little more than a "kind of amiable boy scout". By January 1932 FDR was such a heavy favorite that Lippmann decided drastic measures were necessary. Early that month he made a biting attack on Roosevelt — one long remembered by both FDR and Lippmann's detractors. Lippmann wrote frequently for Armstrong's magazine, Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, and in 1931 and 1932 edited the council's review of events, The United States in World Affairs. Lippmann waited for FDR's inauguration with mixed apprehension and optimism.
