[[FDR]]'s New Deal began with, long before ever providing and direct relief to the public, with an enormous expandion of the civil service bureaucracy. Agencies were created, and people hired, before there was even any idea or plan what they would do. These are the so-called Alphabet soup agencies. | [[FDR]]'s New Deal began with, long before ever providing and direct relief to the public, with an enormous expandion of the civil service bureaucracy. Agencies were created, and people hired, before there was even any idea or plan what they would do. These are the so-called Alphabet soup agencies. |