John Nance Garner

And in Texas, we know a thing or two about delivering those big progressive changes that change lives for working class people.

Remember John Nance Garner and Sam Rayburn delivered the New Deal to this country.

Yeah.

Great Texans.

And besides...

The Democratic leader, John Nance Garner of Texas, really liked the Republican leader and speaker, Nicholas Longworth.

After all, Longworth had the house automobile and gave Garner a ride to work every day.

What a lesson in bipartisanship.

We firmly believe that the Akron will so fully demonstrate the great value of rigid airships, not only for naval, but for commercial purposes.

This ship will be a forerunner of a fleet of American airships flying the flag that will indeed make us first in this merchant marine of the air.

And at the same time, minority leader John Nance Garner is conferring with his Republican counterpart, who's replaced Longworth.

And they're looking at the returns coming in, back and forth, and this special election and that, and this congressman dying.

He accused the president of r- reckless and extravagant spending, of thinking that we ought to center control of everything in Washington as rapidly as possible, and of presiding over the greatest spending administration in peace times in all our history.

Roosevelt's running mate, John Nance Garner, charged that Hoover was leading the country down the path of socialism.

Contrary to the conventional view about Hoover, Roosevelt and Garner were absolutely right.

The crowning folly of the Huli Admin- Hoover administration was his, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff passed in June of 1930.

And by withholding a decision, he prevents other Democrats from putting themselves forward.

Roosevelt tells a couple of his supporters, including James Farley, who was his postmaster general and his all-purpose political handyman, and his vice president, John Nance Garner.

He leads them both to believe that that they will get his blessing to become his successor for the 1940 campaign.

But he doesn't make a decision.

Over on the Senate side, your reporter was there this morning, too, before this, uh, Congress was convened to hear the president's, uh, address.

Vice President Garner was at his office very early, we're told, and was talking about his pecan crop and the bantam chickens in Uvalde, Texas, where he lives.

A few senators, including Senator McCarran of Nevada, meticulously attired in a cutaway, strolled about the chamber.

And the Senate gallery strangely were crowded, although the Senate's only task was to march to the House chamber to hear the president's message.

At that time, of course, the whole House will rise, and undoubtedly we will hear an ovation for Mr. Roosevelt.

There always is one when he comes into this House to speak before the two sessions of Congress.

Speaker Bankhead and Vice President Garner are presiding jointly, of course, over this joint session.

As I told you, they are sitting together, uh, up where the speaker normally sits alone.