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==U.S. Senate==
 
==U.S. Senate==
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Considered a [[Conservative Democrat]], he still supported most of the domestic and foreign policies of [[U.S. President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. Exceptions to this support was his neutrality in the 1932 Democratic nomination contest and five years later his strong opposition to FDR's "court packing" plan. In 2021, President [[Joe Biden]] appointed a commission to "study" a renewal of Roosevelt's "court packing" plan, which would have allowed up to fifteen justices if each member over the age of seventy did not then retire from the bench<ref>Luther Harmon Zeigler, "Senator Walter George's 1938 Campaign," ''The Georgia Historical Quarterly'' (Vol. 43; issue 4), pp.333-352.</ref>  
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George supported most of the domestic and foreign policies of [[U.S. President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. Exceptions to this support was his neutrality in the 1932 Democratic nomination contest and five years later his strong opposition to FDR's "[[court packing]]" plan. In 2021, President [[Joe Biden]] appointed a commission to "study" a renewal of Roosevelt's "court packing" plan, which would have allowed up to fifteen justices if each member over the age of seventy did not then retire from the bench.<ref>Luther Harmon Zeigler, "Senator Walter George's 1938 Campaign," ''The Georgia Historical Quarterly'' (Vol. 43; issue 4), pp.333-352.</ref>  
    
[[File:Russell and George.png|thumb|left|270px|George (right) with [[Richard Russell, Jr.]] (left).]]
 
[[File:Russell and George.png|thumb|left|270px|George (right) with [[Richard Russell, Jr.]] (left).]]
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