In other words, how sucessful was he at achieving his goals of benefiting public welfare by insisting that a powerful federal government must be present to regulate the economy and guarantee social justice?
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This sounds suspiciously like an essay question I answered last week on an AP US History test. Consider his nickname, "the trust buster", having to do with him creating a bureau to break up business monopolies and trusts in industry, manufacturing, etc. Think of why this would benefit the people and the economy.
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Depends on if you believe you have been better off since the great depression. Uncontrolled Capitalism moves in huge cycles of boom and bust that cause world wars. Roosevelt's introduction of Socialism in the name of New Deal programs has probably been been the world's savior, so far we have avoided another great depression for almost 80 years, under straightforward Capitalism we would have been due for WW6 by now and getting ready to fight it w. stones. So I'd say very, but not nationalism, that was simply how he sold it to a country terrified of Socialism and Communism.
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Obviously Smudgeward missunderstood that the reference was to the first President Roosevelt, TR, not FDR. TR lost the 1912 election. New Nationalism was Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive political philosophy during the 1912 election. He made the case for what he called the New Nationalism in a speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, in August 1910. The central issue, he argued, was human welfare versus property rights. He insisted that only a powerful federal government could regulate the economy and guarantee social justice. Roosevelt believed that the concentration in industry was not necessarily bad, if the industry behaved itself. He wanted executive agencies (not the courts) to regulate business. The federal government should be used to protect the laboring man, women and children from what he believed to be exploitation. In terms of policy, the New Nationalism supported child labor laws and a minimum wage laws for women. The book Promise of American Life, written by Herbert Croly, influenced Theodore Roosevelt. This is in direct contrast with Woodrow Wilson's policy of The New Freedom, which promoted antitrust modification, tariff reduction, and banking and currency reform.
