(Burns 1970, p. 340).Before long, it was time for another election. Both Roosevelt and Garner were renominated to represent the Democrats. They were running against Alfred Landon and Frank Knox. The Republicans tried to bring Roosevelt down, saying he failed in keeping his promise to balance the budget. But Roosevelt responded by sharing how he succeeded in ending the Depression and bringing the U.S. back to a prosperous nation. FDR's speech in New York City in 1936 left a very strong message to the world, saying, "I should like to have it said of my first administration that in it the forces of selfishness and lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second administration that in it, these forces are mastered" (Freedman 1990, p. 194). Again, that was all it took to convince the American people, because Roosevelt won the election in another landslide, carrying almost every U.S. State.In Roosevelt's second inaugural address, he told the United States that "the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little" (Freedman 1990, p. 213). FDR's first problem that needed to be dealt with in his second term of office was the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court declared many portions and laws under the New Deal as unconstitutional. So, in 1937, the President decided to reorganize the Supreme Court. He wanted to make it so that the Supreme Court justices were constantly changing, bringing the Court different views and opinions from time to time. This proposal did not pass because people thought that Roosevelt was doing this just to prevent the New Deal from failing. Before long, though, most of the Supreme Court justices had retired or died, so new ones had to be appointed.The next problem came up in 1937, when Japanese attacks on China started to threaten world peace (Schuman 1996, p. 107). Roosevelt wanted ...
