Law Practice,
Government,
Criminal
Sep. 18, 2017
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Special Prosecutor
James Attridge
Law Ofc of James Attridge
270 Divisadero St #3
San Francisco , CA 94117
Phone: (415) 552-3088
Email: jattridge@attridgelaw.com
U Denver School of Law
James is an attorney and mediator in San Francisco. He is writing a book about presidential legal careers.
“All you’ve got to do is stay alive until election day.” That’s the advice Franklin D. Roosevelt got from his running mate, John Nance Garner in 1932. In the rear-view mirror of history that looks like no great insight. The Great Depression had descended on the nation in 1929 and poor Herbert Hoover got blamed for it. Shanty towns were called “Hoovervilles” and when newsreels showed his face at movie theatres he was jeered and hissed. When he showed up at the 1931 Wor...
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