Talk:Leon Henderson

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I feel that this page should not be deleted, because as first head of the OPA Mr. Henderson's tenure was especially controversial and he had a significant impact on the national political climate of the US in 1942. Edwin W. Pauley, the secretary of the Democratic National Committee in 1942 listed five factors for the Democratic loss in the 1942 election, and resentment of Leon Henderson was listed as one of the top five reasons for that defeat. As he wrote, "This was the most universal and serious complaint of all . . . It appears from the letters that the complaint is directed rather at Mr. Henderson and his attitude and methods than at the abstract question of . . . rationing and price control . . . " This is important, because in helping to cause that defeat Mr. Henderson played a role in effectively ending the New Deal.