I wish Mary Mayhew had read the rest of FDR’s 1935 speech December 3, 2016Home, Maine Politics, Opinion, PoliticsMary Mayhew, President-elect Donald Trump, Tarren Bragdon, The Foundation for Government Accountability By Patricia Callahan If Mayhew is going to strip select phrases to justify trimming the welfare rolls without the context of the macro- and microeconomic realities of poverty that FDR understood, all I can say is, leave that man’s words alone.