“…68 Morgenthau was hesitant to explicitly commit FDR to the strategy, so he sent a letter to the President while he was on vacation in Warm Springs, New York, stating simply that Morgenthau would interpret a lack of communication from Roosevelt as consent. 69 Hull's strategy kept the pressure on both the American government (to punish Mexico) and the Mexican government (to compensate the companies). Hull had served in Congress with Samuel McReynolds (D-TN), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and both had been judges back in Tennessee.…”