Vollmer - Was the New Deal A Success?

DOCUMENT C: FEDERAL WRITER’S PROJECT BOOK

I do think that Roosevelt is the biggest-hearted man we ever had in the White House…It’s the first time in my recollection  that a President ever got up and said, “I’m interested in and aim to do somethin’ for the workin’ man.’ Just knowin’ that for once there was a man to stand up and speak for him, a man that could make what he felt so plain nobody could doubt he meant it, has made a lot of us feel a lot better even when there wasn’t much to eat in our homes.

Original source: Federal Writer’ Project, These Are Our Lives, (Norton & Co., 1939).