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The New Freedom was Woodrow Wilson's campaign platform in the 1912 presidential election, and also refers to the progressive programs enacted by Wilson during his time as president. First expressed in his campaign speeches and promises, Wilson later wrote a 1913 book of the same name.
The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Ray Stannard Baker and William E. Dodd (eds.) In six volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925–27. Study of public administration (Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1955) A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches of Woodrow Wilson. John Wells Davidson (ed.) New Haven, CT: Yale University Press ...
—Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, 1913. More selected quotes. More quotes at Wikiquote
Wilson. online. Wilson: The New Freedom vol 2 (1956) Wilson: The Struggle for Neutrality: 1914–1915 vol 3 (1960) Wilson: Confusions and Crises: 1915–1916 vol 4 (1964) Wilson: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace: 1916–1917 vol 5 (1965) Neu, Charles E. Colonel House: A Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner (Oxford UP, 2015), 699 pp ...
Wilson made the bill a top priority of his New Freedom domestic agenda, and he helped ensure that it passed both houses of Congress without major amendments. The Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System, consisting of twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks jointly responsible for managing the country's money supply , making loans ...
The second was to locate the heart of Progressivism in Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism platform of 1912, not in Wilson's New Freedom. Link's point was that Wilson was a conservative until 1913, when he suddenly accepted the core values of Roosevelt's proposals to use the federal government to reform the economy.
“Woodrow Wilson pardoned his brother-in-law, Hunter deButts,” the post’s caption reads in part. It goes on to mention Bill Clinton’s pardon of his brother, Roger, and former President ...
But from the start of his term, Wilson saw close relationships between domestic and foreign policies. The New Freedom envisaged a return to free competition in the United States. The monopolistic interests had to be destroyed at home and their influence in foreign policy dispelled, and thus Wilson's initial rejection of "dollar diplomacy."