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A 6 page research paper that examines a statement by Paul Conkin who said that the New Deal 'solved a few problems, ameliorated a few more, obscured many, and created new ones.' Each of these categories are examined and discussed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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2000 - properly! Historian Paul Conkin has written that the New Deal "solved a few problems, ameliorated a
few more, obscured many, and created new ones" (1967, p. 106). This is, indeed, a highly accurate summation of the New Deal. However, the question remains as to which
of these four categories best exemplifies the social engineering represented by the New Deal legislation. The following discussion will demonstrate that the New Deal, at best, ameliorated some of the
nations serious problems. It actually solved completely very few of the problems of the Great Depression. It certainly did obscure some, and it represents the foundation of the welfare system
that was built on in the 1960s and condemned as a failure in the 1990s. However, there is no denying that the New Deal helped, to some extent, when it
was needed. First of all, an examination of the New Deal era shows that Roosevelt had an immediate, overwhelming success in solving the nations banking crisis. When Roosevelt took
office, the nation was in a state of crisis, with the entire economic system on the verge of collapse. Roosevelt took immediate action and declared a national bank holiday, which
effectively shut the doors on every bank in the US until emergency banking legislation could be drafted (Byrd, 1990). His first New Deal bill submitted to Congress was the Emergency
Banking Relief Act. The House passed the bill with only thirty-eight minutes of debate, without even seeing a printed copy of the text (Byrd, 1990). The Senate deliberated during the
afternoon and passed the bill at seven-thirty that evening, and it was signed into law an hour later by Roosevelt (Byrd, 1990). This act permitted sound banks to reopen only
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