Reply #57: FDR had a learning curve. He saw what HH did and knew something new was needed. But he did sell

[Captain Hilts]

out to conservative southerners - as on the anti-lynching bill - and to fiscal conservative in early 1937 when he imposed tight money policies that made unemployment jump again.

He put a nasty anti-Semite - Breckenridge Long - in charge of the refugee board, so many lives were lost because of FDR's naming of Long to that job.

He made no effort to aid anti-Franco forces in Spain for fear of losing the Catholic vote.