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In 1933 he was made Secretary of Agriculture by Roosevelt. He was a registered Republican at the time. Leftist intellectual [[Rexford Guy Tugwell]] took the #2 role as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.
In 1933 he was made Secretary of Agriculture by Roosevelt. He was a registered Republican at the time. Leftist intellectual [[Rexford Guy Tugwell]] took the #2 role as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.
When Congress formed the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]] (AAA) in the early days of Roosevelt’s [[New Deal]], it became the main vehicle for ending the depression in farming. In the Department in his first big battle he took sides with the "agrarians" such as Chester Davis against the far left, led by Jerome Frank, Gardner Jackson, [[Lee Pressman]] and Rex Tugwell. The radicals were purged, with Tugwell moved to a new division.
When Congress formed the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]] (AAA) in the early days of Roosevelt’s [[New Deal]], it became the main vehicle for ending the depression in farming. In the Department in his first big battle he took sides with the "agrarians" such as Chester Davis against the [[far left]], led by Jerome Frank, Gardner Jackson, [[Lee Pressman]] and Rex Tugwell. The radicals were purged, with Tugwell moved to a new division.
==War cabinet==
==War cabinet==