We take a look back at 1930s America and the extraordinary story of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal -- a plan to end the economic damages of the Great Depression. This is the focus of ...

FDR's court-packing gambit was a disastrous failure: He was never again able to pass the kind of ambitious reform legislation he had during his first term. Advertisement: ...

FDR thought Americans were furious enough about the Supreme Court to approve of his scheme to pack it with new justices. He was wrong.

WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt today proposed to Congress sweeping reform of the judiciary, including the right for him to appoint as many as six new Justices of the Supreme Court if present ...

FDR’s initial effort to stanch the bleeding included a national bank holiday, sweeping agricultural reform, large-scale industrial planning, and various relief and job creation programs.

Intentionally or otherwise, these decisions in the administration’s favor stripped FDR’s court-packing effort of its urgency and helped tip the scales against court reform.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced a plan to pack the Supreme Court with up to six additional justices in a March 1937 "fireside chat." The Senate rejected that bid on July 22, 1937.

Civil service reform is of marked business benefit to the country; it can stand on its merits as a business proposition. But it is much more than a business proposition.

Roosevelt responded with a new program of reform: Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed.

To show how central financial reform was to Roosevelt’s thinking and for a good reason, Walter, that’s still ran today. He was firmly convinced that a healthy democracy required a healthy economy.

FDR thought Americans were furious enough about the Supreme Court to approve of his scheme to pack it with new justices. He was wrong.