In a 2013 episode of the television series "The Newsroom", Zangara's attempt to assassinate Roosevelt is presented as an example of how one thing can change everything. Anchorman Will McAvoy (played by Jeff Daniels) describes how if the chair Zangara had been using had not been wobbly, he would have succeeded in killing President-elect Roosevelt. Vice President–elect John Nance Garner, who opposed the New Deal, would have been sworn in as president on inauguration day, scheduled for seventeen days after the assassination attempt. Thus, the drama suggests, if not for a wobbly chair, the New Deal would not have been able to resolve the Great Depression.