Gene Healy discusses attitudes toward executive power in the 1930s.
Gene Healy, author of The Cult of the Presidency, discusses changing American attitudes about executive authority in the early part of the 20th century. The film discussed, Gabriel Over the White House, was released in 1933 just after the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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