New Deal Documents Held in Hoover Library & Archives Collections

Raymond Moley first used of the term New Deal in a speech written for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 (Raymond Moley Collection)
Part of a group of political advisers to Franklin Delano Roosevelt known as "the brain trust," speechwriter Raymond Moley coined the phrase "New Deal" in this speech written in May of 1932 (Raymond Moley Collection)
"The Effect of Government on the Economic System," by Howard B. Bishop, 1934 (Mark Sullivan Collection, Box 32, Folder 5)
Artist Howard B. Bishop's Rube Goldberg-like depiction of New Deal economic systems warns against the diminishing "supply chamber" of available capital (Mark Sullivan Collection, Box 32, Folder 5)
The 1934 Psalm (Mark Sullivan Collection, Box 32, Folder 5)
This anonymously written spoof of Psalm 23 opens "Mr. Roosevelt is my shepherd/I am in want" (Mark Sullivan Collection, Box 32, Folder 5)
For and Against the Roosevelt Policies (Mark Sullivan Collection, Box 32, Folder 6)
This clipping from the Mark Sullivan archive provides quotations from politicians on both sides of the debate over the economic benefits of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal (Mark Sullivan Collection, Box 32, Folder 6)
The anonymously written poem, "Alphabetically Speaking" (Mark Sullivan Collection, Box 32, Folder 6)
This poem, a satire of New Deal acronyms, was read by New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman during a 1935 speech for the National Republican Club (Mark Sullivan Collection, Box 32, Folder 6)