FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT AND THE NEW DEAL

(Objectives: Understanding the Civic Personality, the Fall of H. Hoover, 
and the Rise of FDR)

I. Rise of FDR and the Civic Personality

	A. Emergence of Civic Personality in American Politics

		1. National Politics creates one community

		2. President becomes both King and P.M

		3. All seen through Intellect, Policy, Principles

	B. Hoover: Personality, Policy, Programs

	C. The Condition of America in 1932

		1. Unemployed, GNP, Exports

		2. Psychologically depressed as well:  Baker

II. The Election of 1932

	A. Mood was tense and angry

	B. Dem: MacAdoo (Garner), Platform, Convention

	C. Rep: Hoove again without enthusiasm

	D. Largest swing in history

	E. Interregnum and deepening panic

III. Franklin Roosevelt's First Administration 1933-37.

	A. Interregnum, Inauguration, and deepening Panic

		1. 20th Amendment

		2. "Day of National Consecration--Nation at War"

		3. Cabinet and Brain Trust, Moley, Berle, Tugwell

	B. The First Hundred Days. (First New Deal?)	

		1. 100 Days flurry of "Experimentation"

		2. March 5, 1933-Special Session of Congress

			a. Bank holiday-"Fire Side Chat"

			b. The Economy Act--15% cut in Federal wages

			c. C.C.C.

			d.  National Industrial Recovery Act	

				1. Title I-Nat'l Recovery
Administration-Blue Eagle							a. Industrial Codes

					b. No anti-trust violation for price fixing

					c. Minimum wage & maximum hours ($.25/44 hr)

					d. Section 7a-collective bargaining (No childlabor

				2. Title II-Public Works
Administration-Harold Ickes 

			e. Agricultural Adjustment Act			

				1.  1920s, McNary-Haugen and Dust Bowl

				2.  Parody at 1910 prices

			f. Tennessee Valley Authority (WWI, Dams,
Yardstick)

			g. Federal Emergency Relief Administration
(a dole)

			h. Repeal Volstead Act

			i. Securities and Exchange Commission	

			j. Continue Reconstruction Finance Corporation

		3. Results-Need for Civil Works Administration

C. Problems with the New Deal and the Rise of "Extremists"

		1.  Huey P. Long-The "Fascist" Kingfish.

		2.  Radio Priest, Father Charles Couglin

		3.  Charles Townsend -$200 a month for elderly

		4. Brandeis-Frankferter to FDR: "Move Now!"

D. Roosevelt Responds-The 2nd Hundred Days (or 2nd ND)

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