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Do you think the man on the left will be able to catch the “butterfly” on the right? The man with the net was Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. Morgenthau served as secretary under both President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry S. Truman. During these years Morgenthau struggled to balance Federal spending and borrowing. …

Politician Huey Long, here shown in a portrait, was well known for his populist reforms. He felt that the rich should work to help the poor. The men gathered around the portrait are then United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Senator Walter George of Georgia and Senator Robert Lee Doughton of North Carolina. The common…