Where did FDR get his New Deal advisors?
[Read the article: Obama’s team of zombies] [Read more letters about this article: Here] A contributor to this commentary section raised the above question in some frustration over the composition of Pres Obama’s advisors and cabinet. As another commenter pointed out, FDR took office as president in 1933, when the depression was well under way. Whether the current woes of the economy become as bad as those of 1933, we shall see, but we are at the beginning, at a point more like 1929 than 1933. FDR was Governor of New York State before running for the White House. He was already dealing at the state level with the problems of unemployment and destitution. New York had its own relief program and other programs designed to alleviate the hardships of New Yorkers. Thus Roosevelt had some considerable experience with using the power of government to aid citizens. He had working for him as president of his relief agency Harry Hopkins, who later became a chief architect of the New Deal (During
