New Deal
noun
: the legislative and administrative program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt designed to promote economic recovery and social reform during the 1930s
also
: the period of this program
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President Roosevelt took office in the midst of the Great Depression, and pursued a sweeping domestic agenda known as the New Deal.
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New York Times, 11 June 2026
Most significantly, Lepore found that readers wanted to know the full story of their country—the progress and the revanchism, the beauty and the ugliness, the racial massacres and the Indian New Deal.
—Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
The 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley act that abolished most New Deal-era limits on Wall Street institutions passed 90-8 and 362-57.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
Four years into the Great Depression, Congress enacted the National Industrial Recovery Act as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal to stimulate the economy.
—USA Today, 2 June 2026
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New York Times, 11 June 2026
Most significantly, Lepore found that readers wanted to know the full story of their country—the progress and the revanchism, the beauty and the ugliness, the racial massacres and the Indian New Deal.
—Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
The 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley act that abolished most New Deal-era limits on Wall Street institutions passed 90-8 and 362-57.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 7 June 2026
Four years into the Great Depression, Congress enacted the National Industrial Recovery Act as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal to stimulate the economy.
—USA Today, 2 June 2026
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