Adviser George Peek met with FDR 26 times between 1933 and 1935, but he later became a strident critic of Roosevelt and his administration.

George Nelson Peek (1873-1943) was the first administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and later special advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt on foreign trade. Peek rose to prominence among agricultural reformers in the 1920’s with the idea that the government should purchase the surplus production of American farmers and sell this produce abroad. This idea was a major part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of March 1933. Peek often disagreed with Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace.  FDR asked Peek to resign in December 1933, but appointed him a special advisor on foreign trade. Peek resigned this position in November 1935 and immediately began to attack the administration. He later became an ardent isolationist and a member of the America First movement.