2. Roosevelt encountered significant populist challenges from the South, primarily through the influence of Huey Long and Eugene Talmadge. Although Long was assassinated in 1935, his radical "Share Our Wealth" program continued to haunt the political land

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2. Roosevelt encountered significant populist challenges from the South, primarily through the influence of Huey Long and Eugene Talmadge. Although Long was assassinated in 1935, his radical "Share Our Wealth" program continued to haunt the political landscape, threatening to siphon votes to the Republicans. Talmadge, a Jeffersonian conservative and race-baiter, further complicated the solid South by rejecting New Deal welfare programs and accusing Roosevelt of communist sympathies. These figures represented a potent brand of agrarian radicalism that forced the president to defend his left flank while maintaining his traditional Southern base. (3)
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3. Dr. Francis Townsend and Father Charles Coughlin emerged as major external pressures on Roosevelt's policy-making during the 1930s. Townsend’s popular $200-a-month pension plan for seniors effectively forced FDR to introduce Social Security to neutrali
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