this week we're back at american university for the second part of history professor allan lichtman's class on franklin roosevelt and his effect on the modern presidency. this is about 70 minutes. >> as soon as everybody gets seated, we'll get going again. obviously, in 1936, fdr is enthusiastically renominated. by the democratic party in a convention that eliminates the -- as we mentioned, the 9 two-thirds rule for nomination and makes nomination a simple majority. roosevelt's acceptance speech was heard by millions on radio. and it articulated the basic theme of his re-election campaign, which was an affirmation of new deal policy combined with a spirited attack on those he called the quote-unquote economic royalists who sought to concentrate power in their hands by creating an economic tyranny in the united states. these economic royalists, he said, complain that we seek the overthrow of the institutions of america. eir wer.y really complain about how do you think republicans responded to that kind of rhetoric? that's exactly the way the republicans today or yesterday responded to