Herbert Hoover

President Franklin Roosevelt poses for a photo with other men behind him in a historical image

Opponents of FDR’s New Deal called it a ‘disaster’

FDR’s New Deal transformed America and is credited with helping the US survive the Great Recession. But his political opponents — including incumbent President Herbert Hoover — called it “a disaster.”

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