In 1932, amidst the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected the 32nd President of the United States. He was more than a leader; he was a beacon of hope, steering the nation through its darkest days... and the newly-elected president had a plan.In this episode, Don is joined by historian Eric Rauchway to explore the New Deal, an ambitious set of federal initiatives aimed at pulling America out of the Great Depression.Edited by Matthew Peaty. Produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe. Archive audio courtesy of the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. "Presidential Speeches: Downloadable Data." Accessed December 20, 2024.You can take part in our listener survey here.All music from Epidemic Sounds/All3 MediaAmerican History Hit is a History Hit podcast.
What led to FDR's election in 1932?
Wir werden Experten über die Bücher der Banken schauen. Wir werden sie so schnell wie möglich öffnen, sobald wir beurteilen können, dass es sicher ist, das zu tun. Und in Wahrheit beginnen sie das fast sofort in den großen Städten und in Orten, wo sie die Verkaufsvergütung und solche Sachen machen müssen. Also ist er in Schmerzen, zu sagen, wir werden tun, was der Grundsatz beurteilt.
Wenn du das erste Fireside Chat, before they were even really called that, where he talks about the banking crisis, he speaks in very homespun terms. He says, we had a bad banking situation. That's a direct quotation. That's not me trying to dumb it down. And so he tries to make it as simple as possible to demonstrate that what they're doing is going to be as little intrusive as possible.
Now behind the scenes he's relying heavily on lawyers for the Federal Reserve. He's relying heavily on people who have graciously stayed over from Hoover's Treasury into Roosevelt's term to try to implement this. He's relying on state banking officials and various other figures in order to do this. He's using existing resources in other words.
But he's trying to make it appear as simple and plain and as easy as possible.
When he finally gets to the New Deal, which we talk about as if it's one thing, it's many, many things. How does that unfold? Is it done in a very logistical fashion through Congress and through the press? Are we informed about each and every one of these kind of acts that's happening? Or is it done more behind the scenes?
Es ist ein bisschen beides. Ich meine, selbst bevor er in die Präsidentschaft kommt, versucht er, den blöden Dachkongress für das Landwirtschaftsgesetz anzupassen. Es ist größtenteils durch Hoover's Efforts, dass das verhindert wird. Aber das ist alles durch die Einladung der Hilfe von
Organisations that represent farmers and soliciting from them the kinds of policies they would like and kind of packaging them in such a way that they will get through Congress in a bipartisan way because there's a lot of Republicans who represent farm areas. That is done in sort of the normal legislative process and by coming up with a bill that would satisfy various constituencies.
And that's all done in the public eye. And the same thing goes for industrial relief packages like the National Industrial Recovery Act, which will come at the end of Roosevelt's so-called 100 days.
Again, this is all brokered through various interests in Congress and put together to try to satisfy a variety of constituencies, which in part explains why it's less successful than it might be otherwise. Some things are done with a sort of more presidential action. A lot of that stuff is to do with control of the dollar.
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