ABSTRACT
One of the essential qualities of democracy is to give hatred a tinge of idealism and to exalt insincerity into a form of loyalty. Congress, as a group and as a bloc, can never feel any sympathy for the President. Congress is housed at the top of a hill, in a rather handsome building of classical design, with a rather handsome dome, surrounded with rather handsome gardens and constructed partly of marble and partly of stone. Franklin Roosevelt's greatest political triumph was, undoubtedly, that he grasped this situation swiftly and saw how to turn it to account. President Roosevelt has reflected upon and talked about the subject, but he has refused to commit himself towards Congress and the country. The wisdom of which he has always given proof and his knowledge of human nature encourage this belief, but his silence conceals his inmost thoughts, and his speeches contain only expressions adapted to the current of American popular sentiment.
