Franklin D. Roosevelt Administrations - Roosevelt's Advisers
Roosevelt's Advisers
There were several people not in Roosevelt's cabinet who influenced the president in significant ways. Among these were his personal secretary Louis Howe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Justice Felix Frankfurter, counsel Samuel I. Rosenman, Hugh Johnson, Thomas G. Corcoran, and Benjamin V. Cohen. The latter two were especially important because they drafted important legislation that included the Truth in Securities Act, the Securities and Exchange Act, the Public Utilities Holding Company Act, the Rural Electrification Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act.
In the spring of 1932 at the suggestion of Rosenman, Roosevelt surrounded himself with a group of advisers known as the brain trust. This group included Rexford Tugwell, Raymond Moley, and Adolph A. Berle, Jr., and played a vitally important role between the election and Roosevelt's first inauguration. The advice provided by these three men became the basis of...
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