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Perhaps the greatest innovation of the New Deal was to compartmentalize the problems of the Depression and deal with them on a case-by-case basis, rather than trying to resolve them through use of one sweeping philosophy, as had Hoover. Often this led to programs that contradicted one another, and often it made it difficult to define the New Deal's aims and purposes. Roosevelt sometimes seemed at sea, deploying several different economic programs because he was unable to choose among them. Consistently, however, he tried to reform corporate capitalism without abandoning it wholesale, as had Soviet Russia, or without shifting it into an authoritarian mode, as had Nazi Germany. This was no easy task, as partisans of the American System saw any deviation from their fundamental philosophy as fraught with error; for them, anything less than economic orthodoxy was revolutionary. "There are some principles that cannot...
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