Many believed that the United States would decline into dissolution and little faith was placed with the current policies of Herbert Hoover's administration. ... This committee, called the Brain Trust, disagreed and argued over many of the policies implemented during the New Deal era. ... On his second day in office, FDR called for a special session of Congress which would ultimately establish numerous emergency organizations, notably the National Recovery Administration (NRA), which attempted to stabilize prices and wages through cooperation between the government, business, and labor, t...

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