“I have used every ounce of power there was in the office and I have not cared a rap for the criticisms of those who spoke of my ‘usurpation’ of power; . . . I believe that the efficiency of this Government depends upon its possessing a strong central executive.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt made this comment in defense of the Louisiana Purchase.

Jackson pollock described his art style in the following quote: “new needs need new techniques.… it seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the renaissance or of any other past culture. each age finds its own technique.” what point is pollock making about the new styles of art?