Franklin Roosevelt

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/10/2021
  

  The New Deal’s Capitalist Lessons for Joe Biden

  by Louis Hyman

  An economic historian argues that the greatest impact of the New Deal came from programs that guided the investment of private capital to social ends, rather than direct expenditure on public works. 

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• SOURCE: Medium
  2/8/2021
  

  The Difference Between a Great President and a Terrible One is Empathy

  by Lindsay Chervinsky

  "As President Trump begins his post-presidential life, Americans will start to reckon with his legacy. They need look no farther than his callous indifference to human life — his response to the crisis marks the ultimate failure of presidential leadership."

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• 1/12/2021
  

  Lessons for Today from FDR and the Progressives?

  by Walter G. Moss

  Drawing lessons for Joe Biden's fraught entry to the presidency from FDR requires considering some unexpected virtues like empathy and humor. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/15/2020
  

  As Biden Prepares To Take Office, FDR's Presidential Transition Offers Lessons

  Historian Robert Dallek interprets Franklin Roosevelt's core challenge at inauguration as producing a program of reform to stabilize the economy without indulging the currents of authoritarianism sweeping Europe. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/18/2020
  

  An FDR-Size Executive Order for Biden

  by Thomas Geoghegan

  Joseph Biden should issue an executive order requiring federal contracts go to firms with collective bargaining agreements in place, boosting wages, strengthening organized labor, and stimulating economic recovery. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  11/12/2020
  

  America's Crises Would Be Daunting for Any President-Elect. But History Can Teach Biden to Navigate Them

  by Jon Meacham

  A popular historian who has been advising Joe Biden with historical perspective argues the president-elect is disposed to empathy and pragmatism and will work to ease the nation's divisions. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/10/2020
  

  How Biden Can Govern in Spite of Everything

  by Kevin Baker

  Joe Biden's chances for success rest with demonstrating his empathy for Americans' problems. "Franklin Roosevelt was 'the only man we ever had in the White House who would understand that my boss is a son-of-a-bitch,' as a North Carolina textile mill worker once said of F.D.R."

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• 11/1/2020
  

  Reconsidering "Court Packing" as Restoring Governing Norms

  by Greg Bailey

  The Republicans' choice to push through Amy Coney Barrett's nomination with the backing of a minority of the country means a new Congress must consider corrective action in the name of justice and democracy.

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• 10/25/2020
  

  FDR Was Right to Propose Enlarging the Court

  by James D. Robenalt

  Franklin Roosevelt's error in 1937 was not to propose expanding the court, it was to fail to explain and defend his popular political reasons for doing so.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/14/2020
  

  The Case Against Packing the Court

  by Jeff Shesol

  The main risk for Biden isn't that court packing would escalate partisan war over the courts. It's that it might destroy his own Democratic coalition. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/24/2020
  

  FDR Tried to Pack the Supreme Court During the Depression. It Was a Disaster for Him.

  Franklin Roosevelt's efforts to expand the Supreme Court to overcome conservative hostility to the New Deal didn't go well for him, though patience paid off as his judicial antagonists retired or died during his presidency.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/24/2020
  

  No President Or Nominee Ever Spoke At A Convention. Then FDR Broke The Rules

  In 1932, FDR flew to Chicago Stadium and became the first presidential nominee to give an acceptance speech at a political convention.

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• SOURCE: The American Prospect
  7/31/2020
  

  When Henry Wallace Warned of ‘American Fascism’

  John Nichols's new book argues that Franklin Roosevelt's decision to cut loose Vice President Henry Wallace crippled egalitarian politics in the Democratic Party with lasting consequences.   

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/30/2020
  

  The Future of American Liberalism

  Columnist David Brooks looks to historians of the New Deal era to suggest Joe Biden can succeed like FDR by offering an active but pragmatic plan to pull America out of the hole created by the coronavirus pandemic. 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  6/28/2020
  

  Joe Biden Wants to be the Next FDR — But that Won't be Enough to Solve our Crises

  by Matthew Rozsa

  The author argues that another New Deal will advance reform instead of the rejection of market-driven capitalism needed to address the deep problems facing America and the world. 

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• SOURCE: New York
  5/11/2020
  

  Biden Is Planning an FDR-Size Presidency

  Biden's advisers agreed: If they were going to talk about lessons from history, their future calls might as well dive into the Great Depression and World War II.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Law Today
  4/28/2020
  

  If Democrats Win in November, Should they Pack the Supreme Court?

  Harvard Law School Professor Mark Tushnet discusses his research on FDR’s 1937 attempt to pack the Court, and the prospects for increasing the number of justices.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  4/25/2020
  

  Out of Pandemic Crisis, What Could a New New Deal Look Like?

  The COVID-19 crisis has served up a rare opportunity to galvanize Americans for change.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/21/2020
  

  Andrew Cuomo Has Revived Franklin Roosevelt’s Language of Leadership

  by Christopher M. Florio

  Recognizing our interdependence is the key to surviving the covid-19 pandemic

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/12/2020
  

  The Speeches F.D.R. and Truman Never Delivered

  by Kurt Graham

  Their addresses in honor of Thomas Jefferson remind us that it is possible to cultivate optimism in times of crisis.