President Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained a lifelong connection with Springwood, his family home in Hyde Park, New York.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt ’s New Deal, widely regarded as one of the most successful federal programs in U.S. history, was designed to salvage the country’s economy during the Great ...

FDR appointed all people close to him who he deemed loyal and supportive of the new Deal. Indeed, Byrne stepped down from the Court to take a position in the administration.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in August of 1935, one of the most enduring programs of his New Deal. Roosevelt later said it was the program of which he was most proud.

The worst of Trump’s attacks on the New Deal is his contempt for America’s most popular domestic program: Social Security. His current protestations that he would protect it are not credible.