In order to protect his programs from further meddling, in 1937 President Roosevelt announced a plan to add enough liberal justices to the Court to neutralize the “obstructionist” conservatives. This “Court-packing” turned out to be unnecessary—soon after they caught wind of the plan, the c...
Prior to FDR’s New Deal, the federal government’s role in the nation’s economy was in question. However, the agencies and acts enacted during the New Deal cemented the government’s role and established the modern American system of government. One of its most important products is the ...
to put Americans back to work. He said the federal government would take an active part in creating jobs. During the next three months, he led Congress in passing more major new programs than the nation had seen for many years. President Roosevelt called his reform program "The New Deal."...
Their coalition has splintered over time, but many of the New Deal programs that bound them together—Social Security, unemployment insurance and federal agricultural subsidies, for instance—are still with us today. Photo Galleries In the mid-1930s, the Farm Security Administration’s Resettlement A...
Although Roosevelt’s speech was broadly popular, anti-war opponents criticized it as simply a justification for Roosevelt’s New Deal social programs, which many conservatives opposed, at least until Pearl Harbor. From that point on, the Four Freedo...
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And most importantly, we must build an unprecedented grassroots movement that is powerful enough to take them on, and win.Young people, advocates, tribes, cities and states all over this country have already begun this important work, and we will continue to follow their lead. ...
Roosevelt promised voters a New Deal that would make the Government assist the population. In the first one hundred days of him being in office, he faced four major challenged: reviving the industrial economy, relieving human suffering, helping the farmers, and reforming aspects of the capitalist...
It is no coincidence that our problems today are a replay of those of 1932, albeit with a less rapid economic descent because of the safety nets like Social Security and bank deposit insurance put in place by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal programs of the 30s. Each and ever...
Robert E. Sherwood, a Roosevelt speech writer and director of the Foreign Information Service, later wrote that “Hopkins came to be regarded as the Chief Apostle of the New Deal and the most cordially hated by its enemies.” Hopkins also repeatedly clashed with Secretary of the Interior ...