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The Rise of the Administrative State

From the very start of President Franklin Delano Rooseveltâ€™s administration, there were unmistakable indications that his â€œNew Dealâ€ would be moving in the statist direction. Frances Perkins, FDRâ€™s secretary of labor, recounted, decades later, a telling occurrence at the first FDR Cabinet meeting. She recalled:

At the first meeting of the Cabinet after the President took office in 1933, the financier and adviser to Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch, and Baruchâ€™s friend General Hugh Johnson, who was to become the head of the National Recovery Administration, came in with a copy of a book by Gentile, the Italian Fascist theoretician, for each member of the Cabinet, and we all read it with great care.

Perkins related the Cabinet story to George Rawick, a socialist historian and professor, who published the quote above in an essay he wrote in 1969 for Radical America, the journal of the Students for a ...

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