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...introduction Franklin Roosevelt, in the final days of his First Administration, proceeded to reveal in detail one of the major objectives of his Second. The effect of the revelation on politicians and political observers was almost as stunning as if in March 1933 he had laid down a complete blueprint of the New Deal. Knocked breathless, official Washington soon rallied sufficiently to indicate that between the President and his goal lay the hardest fight of his White House career...
...morning with a bellyache might throw his country into a war which might never have happened if he had taken a cathartic the night before." As a lad, Webb Miller was inordinately impressed with the works of Henry David Thoreau, found in that gentle naturalist's Walden a blueprint for human peace & happiness. As a man, though he still carries a tattered copy of Walden wherever he goes, Webb Miller rounds off his memoirs by sombrely remarking that "the philosophy of Thoreau ... is impractical as a rule of life. . . . Often I wish I could find the peace which Walden...
...mightily impressed by the speech, was glad to shake the Taft hand, talk things over. Their minds met. Charlie Taft went home, expanded his speech into a 111-page book, You And I-And Roosevelt.* To Governor Landon he sent a copy inscribed: "To the man who fits the blueprint set forth in this little book." Cried Alf Landon, placing the tract permanently on his desk: "There is one book I can recommend...
...would have to be adjusted to the public demand for each industry's goods. Wages would have to be adjusted up and prices down so that the number of dollars in the public's pockets would equal the value of all goods produced. That such a national blueprint of abundance could be drafted and carried out by voluntary agreement of industry, Dr. Ezekiel doubted. That it could be done even if the Government promised to buy up all surplus goods which industry could not sell, he also doubted. He thought his plan possible if the Government...
...types of industries" will be asked to take on the Government's wards as apprentices. Some will be taken into Government offices in order "to develop a new type of trained public servant." What hard-headed realists could not understand, however, and what President Roosevelt's sweeping blueprint failed to make clear was just how "all types of industries" could or would make room for these energetic youngsters when there were estimated to be no less than 9,711,000 energetic adults last month waiting and wishing for the first opportunity to get private jobs...