Truman's Fair Deal Proposal (1949 to 1952)

A Truman's Fair Deal Proposal (1949 to 1952) is a U.S. domestic policy proposal by Harry S. Truman.

• Counter-Example(s):
  • FDR's New Deal.
  • Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal.
• See: American Political History, Cold War Domestic Policy, Democratic Party (United States), Eisenhower's Domestic Policies, Liberalism in the 20th Century, Post-World War II Economic Expansion, Presidential Legislative Initiatives, Progressive Era, Social Welfare Policy in the United States.

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Deal Retrieved:2024-1-15.
  • The Fair Deal was a set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in 1945 and in his January 1949 State of the Union address. More generally, the term characterizes the entire domestic agenda of the Truman administration, from 1945 to 1953. It offered new proposals to continue New Deal liberalism, but with a conservative coalition controlling Congress, only a few of its major initiatives became law and then only if they had considerable Republican Party support. As Richard Neustadt concludes, the most important proposals were aid to education, national health insurance, the Fair Employment Practices Commission, and repeal of the Taft–Hartley Act. They were all debated at length, then voted down. Nevertheless, enough smaller and less controversial items passed that liberals could claim some success.

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