Related topics DNCElections 2012Labor UnionsSocial SecurityMedicare Advertisement Conventional wisdom holds that President Herbert Hoover did next to nothing from 1929-1932 as the nation descended into depression. Then, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president, enacted the New Deal, and saved the country. The problem with this story is that the Depression really didn't end until well after World War II (the war had brought war socialism to the country, which made key numbers—like unemployment—look better while the underlying conditions were still poor). Rather than curing the Great Depression, FDR's real accomplishment was political. Many of FDR's biggest initiatives were actually...
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