Well, he threatened to force the retirement of a bunch of the Supreme Court justices who he didn't like, whom he had named the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, not exactly Mr. Congeniality there. And Franklin Roosevelt threatened to pass legislation entitling himself to pack the Supreme Court to increase it up to the tribunal as big as like 15 people. Now they had just barely moved into their marble palace across the street about a year earlier. No, no, it was two years earlier to the date. (1:05:09–1:05:20)
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