ABSTRACT
The organization of the executive branch of the federal government, the national Democratic Party, and the factional structure within the party was profoundly and permanently changed under their leadership. The usual procedure for setting up regional headquarters was discarded. There was only one national headquarters, in New York City. The president asked Eleanor Roosevelt to “look in” on the organizational activities of the national committee headquarters. The overwhelming popular vote of confidence gave Roosevelt a basis for launching a “second coming” of the New Deal. The anti-New Dealers were pleased that the Senate’s rejection of the Roosevelt plan on July 22 preserved the integrity of that institution. The Farley report’s reference to Works Progress Administration reflected a general anti-New Deal campaign directed particularly at the relief agencies. The public opinion polls, only in their third year of surveying presidential politics, but increasingly influential among politicians, began to show a rising popular acceptance of the third-term idea.
