A: The New Deal had performed its necessary tasks well. It kept vital option open in American life. It faced up to an economic
crisis that was widening rapidly into a moral and spiritual crisis, and it brought the country through, morally renewed and
economically on a far sounder basis. Its accomplishments are so much a part of the landscape today that they twenties have
acquired in retrospect the character of fantasy. Perhaps the best evidence of the extent to which the New Deal reshaped
American Ideas about society is to be found in the evolu- tion of Republican platforms from 1932 to 1948.... The New Deal
took a broken and despairing land and gave it new confidence in itself. Not perhaps new confidence; but rather a revival of
the ancient faith in the free people which, speaking through Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln, has been our great source of
national strength. Roosevelt had a vision of democratic America and the strength to realize a good part of that vision. All his
solutions were incomplete. But then all great problems are insoluble. The New Deal left us the fighting spirit and the broad
democratic faith in which we may strive to advance the solutions a few steps further.
-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., "The Broad Accomplishments of the New Deal," 1948
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