FDR not only strengthened the office of the presidency, he tried to dominate the other branches of government. He was relatively successful during his first administration, in ________, but unsuccessful during his second, in ________.
A. Supreme Court rulings on the constitutionality of the New Deal; his attempts to purge the Democrats who had begun opposing him
B. building up the federal bureaucracy; reducing the power of the states
C. getting Congress to pass his legislative proposals; reshaping the Supreme Court
D. appointing sympathetic judges to the lower courts; getting Congress to sustain his vetoes
Answer: C
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Johnson created the ____________________ Party
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word