Texas trio teaches FDR a hard lesson

Franklin Roosevelt stunned his cabinet speechless on Feb. 1, 1937, by introducing a radical plan to tame the hostile Supreme Court.  

The vice-president was the first to speak.   “Before that law comes back up here for the Boss’ signature, many, many moons will pass,” predicted John Nance Garner of Texas.

After burying Republican Alf Landon at the polls in November 1936, FDR began his second term with a blank-check mandate from the American people, or so he thought.  Working in secret with his attorney general, the president devised a foolproof scheme for neutralizing his number-one nemesis, the U.S. Supreme Court.