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Article: Brilliant, charismatic leaders have brought ruin to strong countries
- Article from:
- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Many people, including some conservatives, have been very
impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But
that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
It was, after all, Franklin D. Roosevelt's brilliant "brains
trust" advisers whose policies are now increasingly recognized as
having prolonged the Great Depression of the 1930s, while claiming
credit for ending it. The Great Depression ended only when the World
War II put an end to many New Deal policies.
FDR himself said that "Dr. New Deal" had been replaced by "Dr.
Win-the-War." But those today who are for big spending like to
credit wartime big spending for bringing the Great Depression to an
end. They never ask the ...