SWK 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mania, American Liberty League, Totalitarianism
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Washington: he provided dynamic leadership in a time of crisis, he was willing to experiment, purpose of the new deal, relief, recovery. 2: reform, sources of new deal ideas, brains trust: specialists and experts, mostly college professors, idea men, new economists: government spending, deficit spending and public works, government should prime economic pump, roosevelt cabinet: included conservatives, liberals, democrats, 4: the new deal on trial, by 1935, political disunity was evident. They had money but were small in numbers, so fdr was not worried: criticisms of radical opponents, radical opponents said the new deal did not go far enough. His (cid:271)road(cid:272)asts (cid:449)ere (cid:272)alled the (cid:862)golden hour of the. 5: dr. francis e. townsend, dr. francis e. townsend was an elderly physician from ca. He had plan for the federal government to pay per month to unemployed people over 60.