Abstract
In the early days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, a progressive Harvard Law professor and a conservative New York editorial page editor began a correspondence that lasted twenty years. The Democratic jurist and future Supreme Court Justice, Felix Frankfurter, had helped found the American Civil Liberties Union and the New Republic. His Republican journalistic cohort, Geoffrey Parsons, wrote for the New Deal's leading opponent, the New York Herald Tribune. Their correspondence reveals the evolution of a relationship between a journalist and a public figure and shows the mindset of the anonymous editor and the effect his editorial page had on an observer “not of his party.” In the correspondence, the law served as “the cohesive power of a free society” and a common bond between political adversaries.
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