Happy Days are here Again
1932 election in a nutshell
Hoover's platform: continuing to be uniquely qualified to be President.
FDR's platform: not being Herbert Hoover.
Roosevelt in office:
Two New Deals
The First New Deal (1933-35): Culmination of Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt's vision of a managed state.
The Second New Deal (1935-1940): Creation of a new social contract between government and the people.
The First New Deal: immediate measures of desparation.
The first New Deal
Thomas and Father Coughlin: triumph of the Bryanites
The first New Deal
The first New Deal
National Recovery Act
Berle on the New Deal
The American solution is running in a current almost directly counter to some of the solutions which are proposed elsewhere in the world. In the United States, so far from desiring to enthrone the proletariat in any of these movements, the real objective is to abolish the proletariat, or rather to make it wholly unncessary by lifting it into a different state.
Coughlin
Long's Populism
The Second New Deal
The Second New Deal
The Second New Deal
Roosevelt on the Social Security taxes:
I guess you're right on the economics, but those taxes were never a problem of economics. They are politics all the way through. We put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program.
Excluded from social security:
Wagner Act
Second New Deal: Major initiatives
The "New Deal" Democratic Coalition