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# Gene Healy discusses attitudes toward executive power in the 1930s. 

Gene Healy, author of [*The Cult of the Presidency*](http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=cats&scid=47&pid=1441383), 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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##### [Gene Healy](/people/gene-healy)

Former Senior Vice President for Policy, Cato Institute