NRA attacked recovery from the wrong direction. Rather than stabilizing prices by lowering production, what was needed was increased purchasing power of American consumers. Within two years, the NIRA was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The president would mediate conflicts while balancing the interests of one group against another. His older cousin TR had held a similar idea of the presidency , but FDR expanded this concept of the broker state.
Strongest group can put pressure on even the strongest broker.
This was true in FDR's administration, when the NIRA and AAA benefitted chiefly big business and big agriculture. Increasingly, members of Congress and others were calling for a fundamental reform of society, not just relief of the problems. These are tantalizingly important questions.