Bernard Baruch (1870 - 1965) was a major player in FDR's cabinet; during the Second World War he served that president as a respected adviser concerning many matters economic. Shortly after this YANK MAGAZINE interview, during the Truman Administration, he was appointed to serve as the first U.S. Representative on the U.N Atomic Energy Commission. He played a roll in the planning of Post-World War II America, and for that reason he was interviewed by a G.I. reporter so the inquiring readers of YANK could get a sense of what to expect when they reached home. Baruch predicted a booming economy at war's end, while many others erroneously expected an economic slump and a crime wave, brought on by millions of demobilized soldiers.
Here are various articles about FDR's New Dealers:
Read about Harry Hopkins here...
Read about Harold Ickes here...
Read about Vice President John Nance Garner here...
Click here to read about FDR's legal counselor, Samuel Rosenman.
Read about FDR's Labor Secretary, Francis Perkins - click here
Read about Harry Truman here...
FDR's critics had a thing or two to say about the first year of "The New Deal"...
Read a conservative essay that slandered FDR's "Brain Trust" here...
The group that advised FDR on all matters involving the African-American community was popularly known as "the Black Brain Trust"...
Click here to read a 1945 article about the funeral of FDR.
