History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1508 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Brains Trust
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The idea
Roosevelt's advisers, called the Brains Trust after a New York Times reporter's phrase, among them Rexford Tugwell, Raymond Moley and Adolph Berle.
In practice
Ivy League intellectuals and New York social workers arriving in Washington, Digital History says.
Where people slip
Digital History calls the New Dealers pragmatists who rejected laissez-faire yet disagreed profoundly about how to end the Depression.
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