Once the head of Roosevelt's nerdy analyst team known as the Brain Trust, Moley grew increasingly opposed to the progressive politics the new president enacted. Although he continued to write speeches for FDR until 1936, Moley shifted right until he became a prominent conservative Republican.

He was a correspondent for Newsweek until 1968 and one of the most outspoken critics of the New Deal.

So outspoken was he that in 1939, he published his first major work, a book that took apart the New Deal's policies piece by piece. It was titled After Seven Years, with the title immediately asking the reader what had changed since FDR's policies were initiated.

For Moley's part, he supported Roosevelt's early policies, including the banking holiday, saying that the country was "saved in eight days." But as the policies became more radically progressive, Moley began to cut ties with the Democrats altogether.

What a flip for the guy credited with coining the term "New Deal."