“He had been both astounded and appalled by the depth of anti-Roosevelt) sentiment he had encountered in Palm Beach among the wealthy. The very men and women who should have been among the president’s strongest supporters because he had saved capitalism and their fortunes were his most venomous opponents. ‘We are witnessing,’ he would later write in his Roosevelt campaign book, I’m for Roosevelt, ‘the strangest hatred of history.’” –
From “The Patriarch, The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy” by David Nasaw.
