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He was one of the earliest supporters in the west of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] for president in 1932 and was a liberal who supported the entire [[New Deal]]. In 1935, as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, Wheeler led a successful fight to win passage of the Public Utilities Holding Company Act. It was bitterly opposed by the electric utilities lobby.  

He was one of the earliest supporters in the west of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] for president in 1932 and was a liberal who supported the entire [[New Deal]]. In 1935, as chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, Wheeler led a successful fight to win passage of the Public Utilities Holding Company Act. It was bitterly opposed by the electric utilities lobby.  

Wheeler he broke with President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1937 and led the successful battle to stop Roosevelt from expanding the Supreme Court and packing it with liberals. Before Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941) , he was an isolationist, leading opposition to help for Britain in World War II, a position favored by his German American, Scandinavian and Irish Catholic supporters.  He warned against the risk of a Roosevelt dictatorship if the United States joined the war. After Roosevelt asked for [[Lend-Lease]] legislation in 1940 to send military supplies to Britain, then very hard pressed in its war with Nazi Germany, Wheeler called it the "New Deal's triple-A foreign policy--it will plow under every fourth American boy." Roosevelt shot back that Wheller's statement was "the most untruthful," the "most dastardly, unpatriotic thing that has been said in public life in my generation."  In early December 1941 a military officer gave Wheeler a copy of the top secret American war plan for fighting Germany, and Wheeler gave it to the ''Chicago Tribune'', which published the secrets in a desperate effort to weaken the American military so much that Roosevelt would avoid war. Pearl Harbor came a few days later and Wheeler went quiet.

Wheeler he broke with President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1937 and led the successful battle to stop Roosevelt from expanding the Supreme Court and packing it with liberals.  

 

 

Before Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941) , he was an isolationist, leading opposition to help for Britain in World War II, a position favored by his German American, Scandinavian and Irish Catholic supporters.  He warned against the risk of a Roosevelt dictatorship if the United States joined the war. After Roosevelt asked for [[Lend-Lease]] legislation in 1940 to send military supplies to Britain, then very hard pressed in its war with Nazi Germany, Wheeler called it the "New Deal's triple-A foreign policy--it will plow under every fourth American boy." Roosevelt shot back that Wheller's statement was "the most untruthful," the "most dastardly, unpatriotic thing that has been said in public life in my generation."  In early December 1941 a military officer gave Wheeler a copy of the top secret American war plan for fighting Germany, and Wheeler gave it to the ''Chicago Tribune'', which published the secrets in a desperate effort to weaken the American military so much that Roosevelt would avoid war. Pearl Harbor came a few days later and Wheeler went quiet.

Wheeler was defeated in the 1946 Democratic primary because he was too conservative for most Democrats.  He became a highly paid corporate lawyer in Washington and gave strong support to Republican Senator [[Joe McCarthy]].

Wheeler was defeated in the 1946 Democratic primary because he was too conservative for most Democrats.  He became a highly paid corporate lawyer in Washington and gave strong support to Republican Senator [[Joe McCarthy]].