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rJ'HE new is replacing the old in the Na tional Administration, with an air of ex pectancy definitely growing within the peo ple of the United States. A Democratic administration, powerful and supreme over a period of twenty years, has become old to the point that it was failing to meet the rapid developments in a changing world. To be sure, the New Deal had established more new programs and by proclaiming emergency after emergency had, herded a dismayed people into a state socialism, barely missing complete socialism. In the natural course of events as a nation and a world develops there must be changes of conception and of action. We are not one to close our minds to the important and neces sary role the New Deal played in an era of history beset by economic changes and new concepts in governmental philosophies. Not all of the New Deal was in error. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt as sumed the responsibilities the people had spoken in unmistakable terms in favor of a change. He gave the nation a dynamic lead ership. The stage was set for just such a personality and he played it to a “queen’s taste." New ideas were injected into gov ernment; new controls were placed on business; new bonds were placed on individ ual freedom of action. Interpretations^of the Constitution by the Supreme Court were stretched almost to the breaking point. Congress went along with the liberal lead ership, our spending and electing, electing administrations bent upon liberalizing the accepted concepts of the Republic. President Eisenhower faces a similar condition. In 1952 the people of the United States placed a period behind the New Deal
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