History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1805 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Fair Deal
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The idea
In his inaugural address of nineteen forty-nine Truman named his programme the Fair Deal, a nod to Roosevelt's New Deal.
In practice
A proposal for national health insurance, which the American Medical Association spent some one and a half million dollars to defeat, branding it socialised medicine.
Where people slip
Congress refused it, the anchor says, and refused to make lynching a federal crime.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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