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18. The Square Deal dates from Roosevelt--

Mon Dec 8, 2014, 09:21 PM

Dec 2014

TEDDY Roosevelt, that is.

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The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.[1] These three demands are often referred to as the "three C's" of Roosevelt's Square Deal. Thus, it aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the most extreme demands of organized labor. A progressive Republican,[2] Roosevelt believed in government action to mitigate social evils, and as president denounced "the representatives of predatory wealth” as guilty of “all forms of iniquity from the oppression of wage workers to defrauding the public."[3]

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By 'Square Deal' were you attempting to refer to Harry S. Truman's 'Fair Deal'? I've KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #14

The Square Deal dates from Roosevelt-- Jackpine Radical Dec 2014 #18

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