programsfocusedonwhathistoriansrefertoasthe"3Rs",Relief,Recovery,andReform:relieffortheunemployedandpoor,recoveryoftheeconomybacktonormallevels,andreformofthefinancialsystemtopreventarepeatdepressioninstitutedmajorregulatoryreformsrelatedtofinance,communications,labor,andsoforth.Inordertocheerpropleupandhelpthem...
George Sutherland, and Willis Van Devanter—made up the extreme conservative wing of the Court.11These judges, as well as Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Justice Owen Robert, were instrumental in striking down Roosevelt’s more significant New Deal acts, including recovery and relief program...
But FDR quickly went to work on an aggressive government campaign to provide relief and recovery. In doing so, as Professor Lawrence Davidson has written, “Roosevelt and the New Deal saved capitalism from itself.” As writer Russell Baker has noted, “Roosevelt and his advisers introduced a ne...
After assuming the office, he took quick and decisive action, pursuing the New Deal, a broad array of measures intended to achieve economic recovery, to provide relief to the millions of poor and unemployed, and to reform aspects of the economy that Roosevelt believed had caused the collapse....