FDR: “The Real Truth of the Matter Is, as You and I Know, that a Financial Element in the Larger Centers has Owned the Government Since the Days of Andrew Jackson.”

Nov. 21, 1933 – In a letter to Col. Edward M. House, President Franklin Roosevelt writes:

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government since the days of Andrew Jackson.”