Day remained a lifelong anti–New Deal, anti–Big Government conservative, even after the Rural Electrification Administration brought a steady supply of electricity to the ranch. Sandra and her brother, Alan, vividly recalled DA’s tirades against Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “Why, that son of a bitch even tells me when to get up in the morning and go to bed at night,” he railed when FDR instituted Daylight Saving Time at the beginning of World War II.