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__**Chapter 23: Franklin Delano Roosevelt**__







FDR was a 2 term governor of NY and a distant cousin of Theodore Roosevelt. When he was a governor, he was known to be an effective, reform-minded leader, working to dodge and fix the problems of unemployment and poverty. He was one to take responsibility and was actually hands on unlike Hoover and that was what attracted voters. He had 23 million votes. He began to form new policies for the new administration and came to be known as the "Brain Trust" because he worked with his teams and picked advisers with caution with professors, lawyers, and journalists. This was made to resolve the issues of the The Great Depression and that was known to be "The New Deal" which was also when FDR declared and promised a new deal for the American people. These policies focused on goals such as relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform.

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