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The New Deal

On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt delivered his first inaugural address before 100,000 people on Washington’s Capitol Plaza. “First of all,” he said, “let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”                               - Source: history.com

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Sources for your Research

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Person Specific Sources

Franklin Delano Roosevelt speeches:

           First Inaugural Address  http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrfirstinaugural.html

Upton Sinclair The EPIC Movement     

            http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/sinclair.html

Huey Long Share the Wealth Speech    http://www.ssa.gov/history/longsen.html

Father Charles Coughlin The Principles of Social Justice (1-16 only)

            http://www.ssa.gov/history/fcspeech.html

Dr. Francis Townsend The Townsend Plan

            http://www.ssa.gov/history/towns5.html

Harry Hopkins

             The life, times, and health care of Harry L Hopkins: Presidential advisor and perpetual patient

              By Theodore N Pappas and Sven Swanson

              https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0967772015588646

Harold Ickes

               https://www.jstor.org/stable/2703296?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Norman Thomas

                https://www.jstor.org/stable/23327653?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents