Professor of history Gary Gerstle talks about Franklin D. Roosevelt's efforts to "pack the Supreme Court" with justices he believed would be sympathetic to his legislative agenda, particularly the Wagner Act and the Social Security Act.. Although Roosevelt's efforts ultimately failed, "...(He) did succeed in scaring one Supreme Court Justice into changing his vote," Professor Gerstle explains, "...so that when the two critical pieces of legislation came before the Court, they passed by five to four margins, and so...the foundation of his New Deal was thus secure."

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