US Presidency
1931

The maintenance of the American system of individual initiative and individual and community responsibility. The broad purpose of this program is to restore the old job instead of create a made job, to help the worker at the desk as well as the bench, to restore their buying power for the farmers ' products -in fact, turn the processes of liquidation and deflation and start the country forward all along the line. This program will affect favorably every man, woman and child not a special class or any group. One of its purposes is to start the flow of credit now impeded by fear and uncertainty, to the detriment of every manufacturer, business man and farmer. To reestablish normal functioning is the need of the hour.