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How Did Truman's Proposed Fair Deal Policies Fare

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How did Truman's proposed Fair Deal policies fare?


A) Congress passed most of the policies because it considered them more just and bipartisan than Roosevelt's New Deal policies had been.
B) Although Truman was unsuccessful in his efforts to reinstate the Taft-Hartley Act, he secured national health insurance and a new approach for subsidizing farmers.
C) Conservative Republicans managed to get the policies passed by Congress because they agreed with Truman's new hands-off approach to foreign policy.
D) Most of the programs were rejected by Congress, in part because bipartisan conservatives considered them extensions of earlier New Deal programs such as social security.
E) Although Truman used the proposed policies as part of his platform for the 1948 election, he never actually brought them before Congress because he became distracted by foreign affairs.

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