"Sometimes I had morning meetings with President Roosevelt to discuss the legislative program. But no matter how often he referred to the agglomeration of recovery legislation as the “New Deal,” I refused to use the term. As far as I was concerned, it was just a part of the Democratic tradition. It was new only in contrast to the ice-age policies of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. I didn’t care to abandon the Democratic Party label for a catch phrase. To me, most of what Roosevelt advocated was consistent with our party’s past. One of my fears was that by referring to this progressive legislation as the “New Deal,” we might be building a separate group which would eventually branch off into a new political party."
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My Name Is Tom Connally by Senator Tom Connally as told to Alfred Steinberg, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: New York, 1954, P.153-154
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