 He made an unsuccessful bid for a California State Assembly seat in 1938.Heinlein's first novel, "For Us, the Living" (written 1939), consists largely of speeches advocating the Social Credit system, and the early story "Misfit" (1939) deals with an organization—"The Cosmic Construction Corps"—that seems to be Franklin D. Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps translated into outer space.Of this time in his life, Heinlein later said