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In many ways Frank's political ambitions were responsible for his removal. Since the late 1920s he had cultivated powerful friends within the Republican Party, including Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. Following the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frank became one of the important spokesmen for the business wing of the Republican Party, writing a book, America's Hour of Decision (1934), that helped unite business conservatives in their opposition to the New Deal. After 1934 he also turned his oratorical skills toward attacking the New Deal, condemning it as creating the "weapons of power to be captured by some yet-to-arise dictatorial government which will mean the end of all our fathers fought to establish in the American scheme of government." Many thought Frank would become the Republican candidate for president in 1936, but Frank refused to run. After he was fired from Wisconsin, he bought an obscure magazine, Rural Progress, and...
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