new deal

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As for domestic policy, the high-water mark of federal government power previously was coincidently during the tenure of TR’s distant cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the New Deal.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

“We’re in a similar moment now,” said New Deal expert Eric Rauchway, a distinguished professor of history at UC Davis.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025

No. 4 on the list is Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president who brought us the New Deal.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2025

They worked in the shadow of what scholars and commentators called “the liberal consensus” that was formed around the New Deal and, later, the civil rights revolution.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025

Mrs. Reilly had been solidly behind Franklin Roosevelt for four terms not because of the New Deal, but because his mother, Mrs. Sara Roosevelt, seemed to have been respected and well treated by her son.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole