Richard Yao
Mrs. Holmes
Academic English 3
23 March 2016
Great Leaders Rough Draft
Franklin D. Roosevelt, notorious fascist or eminent provisioner? Some politicians have criticised Roosevelt for centralising government power, yet what most people remember was his remarkable efforts in foreseeing and solving domestic issues. As the only United States President to be elected to four consecutive terms, Franklin D. Roosevelt has become one of the most prominent members of American politics for leading his country out of the Great Depression and guiding the course of World War II.
First of all, many people criticised Roosevelt for breaking the no-third-term tradition in 1940. Although the democrats were definitely frustrated and exasperated for …show more content…
New Deal was one of his major achievement that pulled America out of recession. Upon inauguration, Roosevelt expressed his underlying social view—“The laws that he sponsored, the agencies that he established, the political manoeuvres that he devised-these were but means to the end: a more abundant life for every man, woman, and child” (Greer 3). To implement his promises, he injected funds to the market through Congress in his "First 100 Days" program to relief the pressure tens of millions of unemployed during the depths of the Great Depression (Underhill 140). Shortly after the expansionary fiscal policy, he started capital construction like the CCC and the WPA immediately to help pull up work place supplies. Furthermore, the National Labor Relations Act was also one of Roosevelt’s major achievement in New Deal which protected basic rights for labours and farmers. Under Roosevelt’s guidance, unemployment drastically decreased from 25% to 2% (Underhill 153). However, there are many criticism against New Deal. According to Phillip Abbott, the New Deal was accused of being the greatest spending Administration in peace times in all of our history—it had piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission. The biggest idea was that New Deal fostered collectivism, that the government continuously centralised its power through market regulations. Disappointment with the "reformist" scope of the New Deal had produced a deep resentment not only among the left but among liberals as well (Abbott
Mrs. Holmes
Academic English 3
23 March 2016
Great Leaders Rough Draft
Franklin D. Roosevelt, notorious fascist or eminent provisioner? Some politicians have criticised Roosevelt for centralising government power, yet what most people remember was his remarkable efforts in foreseeing and solving domestic issues. As the only United States President to be elected to four consecutive terms, Franklin D. Roosevelt has become one of the most prominent members of American politics for leading his country out of the Great Depression and guiding the course of World War II.
First of all, many people criticised Roosevelt for breaking the no-third-term tradition in 1940. Although the democrats were definitely frustrated and exasperated for …show more content…
New Deal was one of his major achievement that pulled America out of recession. Upon inauguration, Roosevelt expressed his underlying social view—“The laws that he sponsored, the agencies that he established, the political manoeuvres that he devised-these were but means to the end: a more abundant life for every man, woman, and child” (Greer 3). To implement his promises, he injected funds to the market through Congress in his "First 100 Days" program to relief the pressure tens of millions of unemployed during the depths of the Great Depression (Underhill 140). Shortly after the expansionary fiscal policy, he started capital construction like the CCC and the WPA immediately to help pull up work place supplies. Furthermore, the National Labor Relations Act was also one of Roosevelt’s major achievement in New Deal which protected basic rights for labours and farmers. Under Roosevelt’s guidance, unemployment drastically decreased from 25% to 2% (Underhill 153). However, there are many criticism against New Deal. According to Phillip Abbott, the New Deal was accused of being the greatest spending Administration in peace times in all of our history—it had piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission. The biggest idea was that New Deal fostered collectivism, that the government continuously centralised its power through market regulations. Disappointment with the "reformist" scope of the New Deal had produced a deep resentment not only among the left but among liberals as well (Abbott