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Brain Trust, the group of close advisers to Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he was governor of New York state and during his first years as President. The name was applied to them because the members of the group were drawn from academic life. This informal advisory group on the New Deal included Columbia Univ. professors Raymond Moley Moley, Raymond Charles (mō`lē), 1886–1975, American political economist, b. Berea, Ohio, grad. ..... Click the link for more information. , Adolf A. Berle Berle, Adolf Augustus, Jr. (bûr`lē), 1895–1971, American lawyer and public official, b. Boston. ..... Click the link for more information. , Jr., and Rexford G. Tugwell Tugwell, Rexford Guy, 1891–1979, American economist and political scientist, b. Chautauqua co., N.Y., grad. Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania (B.S., 1915; Ph.D., 1922). He taught economics at the Univ. of Pennsylvania (1915–17), the Univ. ..... Click the link for more information. and expanded to include many more academicians. It soon disintegrated, but the term has remained in common usage for similar groups. BibliographySee study by R. G. Tugwell (1968). Brain TrustGroup of advisers to Franklin Roosevelt in his 1932 presidential campaign. Its principal members were the Columbia University professors Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, and Adolf A. Berle, Jr. (1895–1971). They presented Roosevelt with analyses of national social and economic problems and helped him devise public-policy solutions. The group did not meet after Roosevelt became president, but members served in government posts. See also New Deal. |
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When Raymond Moley, a leading early Brain Truster, was asked to provide a philosophical justification for FDR's approach to government, he--along with nearly all of the New Dealers--cited Pragmatism. Kamen, by the way; also reports that doubts as to who would be formulating national security policy inside an Al Gore White House seemed removed last month when Gore's brain truster Leon Fuerth announced himself to 300 members of the Council on Foreign Relations as the "putative national security adviser. |
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