The New Deal
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt wasn’t busy confiscating hoarded gold, he was working on his New Deal, a program to guide the country through high unemployment and extreme poverty.
This New Deal was shepherded in by executive orders, creating the Emergency Banking Act, the Works Progress Administration, and the repeal of Prohibition. The president’s vision for America’s future was so complex that it took four press conferences, set up like a college lecture, to explain how all of the parts fit together. He even created visual aids for the stunned and confused members of the press, who wrongly believed that something this intricate would never work.
