Element II
"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson—and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W. W.. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States—only on a far bigger and broader basis."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Letter to Col. Edward Mandell House (November 21, 1933); as quoted in F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945, edited by Elliott Roosevelt