Reply #20: I think this platform shows plenty of clues ....

[Joe Fields]

to the New Deal Programs that lay ahead. The first one hundred days of the Roosevelt administration didn't just happen. They were planned. If you read the platform, you get an insight to some of the New Deal.

For example: " The only hope for improving present conditions, restoring employment, affording permanent relief to the people, and bringing the nation back to the proud position of domestic happiness and of financial, industrial, agricultural and commercial leadership in the world lies in a drastic change in economic governmental policies."

This part of the platform clearly shows what direction they were headed.

Also this: "We advocate the extension of federal credit to the states to provide unemployment relief wherever the diminishing resources of the states makes it impossible for them to provide for the needy; expansion of the federal program of necessary and useful construction effected with a public interest, such as adequate flood control and waterways."

No, Nadin, while it is true that no specific programs would be instituted, that is not the purpose of a party platform. A platform is intended to express the general direction of the party. I think that Roosevelt's policies pretty much mirrored the party platform, minus a mistake or two.