Claude Bowers Quotes

Claude Gernade Bowers was an American historian, Democratic Party politician, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's ambassador to Spain (1933-1939) and Chile (1939-1953). His histories of the Democratic Party in its formative years from the 1790s to the 1830s helped shape the party's self-image as a powerful force against monopoly and privilege. As ambassador To Spain he favored the Republican cause. At first he recommended the United States joined the other great powers in a policy of strict noninvolvement. However by 1937 he unsuccessfully pressed Washington to aid the Loyalist cause. in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. In domestic affairs he considered himself a staunch Jeffersonian, and was increasingly dismayed at the New Deal interventions into the economy, but kept quiet about it.