FDR Not Only Strengthened the Office of the Presidency, He

FDR not only strengthened the office of the presidency, he tried to dominate the other branches of government. He was relatively successful during his first administration in ________, but unsuccessful during his second in ________.

A) getting Congress to pass his legislative proposals; reshaping the Supreme Court
B) appointing sympathetic judges to the lower courts; getting Congress to sustain his vetoes
C) Supreme Court rulings on the constitutionality of the New Deal; trying to purge Democrats who had begun opposing him
D) building up the federal bureaucracy; reducing the power of the states