Truman tries to piggyback FDR’s “New Deal” ideas by offering a “Fair
Deal” in his State of the
Union address, stating that the people of the U.S. had a right to expect a fair
deal from their government.
He wanted to
increase minimum wage, offer a national health care program, improve public
housing, federal aid for education, assistance to farmers and more. However, coming right at the end of World War
II, these ideas sounded too close to socialism and an anti-communist attitude
threw up barriers to Truman’s ideas.
He
did get a few changes passed, such as increasing minimum wage from 40 cents to
75 cents an hour but by 1950, the Korean and Cold Wars were detracting his
attention from domestic matters.
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