FDR on mortgages, gold, reflation, and labor standards
danieljbmitchell
These two video clips represent early New Deal policy. The first is a radio address delivered some time after the collapse of the London Gold Conference of 1933. The conference had been set up under the outgoing Hoover administration. A leaked communication from President Roosevelt ended the conference. In it, Roosevelt indicated he did not support a quick return to the traditional gold standard and that domestic considerations outweighed international. New Deal policy favored “reflation …