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I'm Megna Chakrabardi and this is the Jackpot, where on-point news analyst, Jack Beattie, helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in now.

Hello there, Jack.

Hello, Megna.

So we are at episode 65, your headline.

Everything a president does teaches.

Ah, okay. I would agree with that as both the political and, I would say, moral leader of the United States, but tell us more.

Well, that's an epithom of FDRs.

And the central lesson that he taught, that the New Deal taught, as he put it, was security. He said, among our objectives, I place the security of the men, women, and children of the nation first. People, he declared, had a, quote, right to three types of

security, decent homes to live in, productive work, and, quote, security against the hazards and

vicissitudes of life. That was the lesson of the New Deal.

His aide, Raymond Molley, wrote,

from the bottom of his heart,

he wants people to be as happy as he is.

He is outraged by hunger and unemployment

as though they were personal affronts.

In a world, he is certain he can make far better, totally other than it has been.

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