Title: Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" Sealed the Deal in 1932 | US News
Headings: Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" Sealed the Deal in 1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal" Sealed the Deal in 1932
Mark Twain and Henry James both used it, but it was FDR who etched it into the history books.
The 'New Deal' Sealed the Deal

Content: People in Iowa and Minnesota armed themselves to prevent banks from foreclosing on their farms. And by the summer of 1932, some 25,000 World War I vets had descended on Washington, camping out near the steps of Congress and asking for money. When they were forced out of the city at bayonet point, revolution seemed very much in the air. No wonder Americans wanted a reshuffling of the cards they'd been dealt. It mattered little to the public that Roosevelt had no idea what the New Deal would entail. " I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people," Roosevelt told the convention during his acceptance speech. Once in office, Roosevelt pushed a litter of new programs into existence, each marked by an acronym synonymous with New Deal legislation: the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), the CWA (Civil Works Administration), and the WPA (Works Progress Administration), to name but a few. But the New Deal's eventual impact went beyond staving off social upheaval, re-establishing trust in the currency, and putting people back to work. " It was the first time that Americans thought of their government as a solution to the problems that individuals and society at large were experiencing," says Jean Edward Smith, a political science professor at Marshall University and author of FDR.