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Planning and Politics
Stone, I. F. | March 20, 1943 issue

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The so-called American "Beveridge plan" submitted to U.S. Congress by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt has been lying around the White House for some time. It is in two parts. One deals with security, work, and relief policies, the other with post-war planning. The first, a tome of 640 pages, was actually delivered to the President three days before Pearl Harbor. The second, a literary quickie of but 50,000 words, was sent to the White House a year later, on December 16, 1942. Thus one had been on his desk for fifteen months and the other for three when the President finally passed them on to Congress. Roosevelt is a master of publicity, and it is interesting to speculate on his timing.

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INTERNAL security -- United States; POSTWAR reconstruction; ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; PRESIDENTS -- United States; PUBLIC welfare; UNITED States
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