Why Was The New Deal Successful

Franklin D. Roosevelt was a brave and innovative man. He ran for office on a platform that was opposite of Herbert Hoover, who was a staunch conservative and who did not believe in helping the poor. FDR offered the people a “New Deal” that was not defined at first but would open the door to allowing the government to intervene in more aspects of American lives. The New Deal made Roosevelt a hero to some average men who had been put out of work by the Depression but put him at odds with businesspeople who he prevented from profiting from people’s losses. Some people considered the New Deal to have failed since it did not wholly restore economic recovery to the nation; however they were only looking at a narrow aspect of what it did. The New Deal successfully created a safety net for Americans because it provided temporary jobs, programs such as Social security to protect the people who need it most, and promise that things might turn around and that they had a leader who had an interest in their wellbeing. Many of the programs within the New Deal had to do with creating jobs for people who had lost everything during the Depression. One of those programs was the Civilian Conservation Corps or

Roosevelt himself. FDR was a leader that bucked the system that was in place and invented new methods to help the common man. He connected directly with the citizens to offer them hope by being the first president to speak to his constituents over the radio instead of by newspaper calling them “fireside chats.” He challenged the definition of freedom so that it changed from liberty of contract to the freedom of security for every man. He also threatened to pack the courts with new justices for every justice past the age of 70 to scare the judges into reevaluating their views on the New Deal programs. While not all of his actions were perfect, he was a man willing to fight for the needs of every