| 1944-07-21 | Democratic Convention Ousts Henry Wallace, Party Bosses Install Truman
3 src Harry Truman · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Democratic National Committee | | confirmed |
| 1944-06-22 | GI Bill Passed with Discriminatory State Implementation Enabling Racial Wealth Gap
7 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · American Legion | | confirmed |
| 1943-06-25 | Smith-Connally Act Criminalizes Union Political Contributions, Spawns First PACs
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Congress of Industrial Organizations · United Mine Workers · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1943-04-08 | Hold the Line Order Freezes Wages While Corporate Profits Soar
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · AFL · CIO · John L. Lewis | | confirmed |
| 1942-07-02 | FDR Proclamation 2561 Creates Military Tribunal for Nazi Saboteurs; Ex parte Quirin Becomes Cited Precedent for Post-9/11 Detention
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Supreme Court · Francis Biddle · J. Edgar Hoover |
| confirmed |
| 1942-06-13 | Office of Strategic Services Created, Wall Street Lawyers Build Intelligence Apparatus
3 src William Donovan · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Allen Dulles · Wall Street | | confirmed |
| 1942-02-19 | Executive Order 9066 as Executive-Power Template: FDR's Internment Authority Predicate for 2001 Detention Architecture
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Francis Biddle · Earl Warren |
| confirmed |
| 1942-02-19 | Executive Order 9066 Authorizes Japanese American Internment
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. War Department |
| confirmed |
| 1942-01-16 | War Production Board Establishes Corporate-Government Fusion Model
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · War Production Board · Defense contractors | | confirmed |
| 1942-01-12 | National War Labor Board Established, No-Strike Pledge Constrains Unions
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · AFL · CIO · War Production Board | | confirmed |
| 1941-12-07 | FBI Pre-Pearl-Harbor Japanese-American Dossier System Provides Internment Target Lists
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1940-10-08 | Excess Profits Tax Passed with Corporate Lobbying Loopholes
3 src U.S. Congress · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Treasury Department · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1940-06-28 | Smith Act Criminalizes Advocacy of Government Overthrow, Enables Political Persecution
3 src U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Franklin D. Roosevelt | | confirmed |
| 1939-11-04 | Neutrality Act Revised to Allow Arms Sales on Cash-and-Carry Basis, Enabling Corporate War Profits
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · France | | confirmed |
| 1939-09-06 | Roosevelt Proclamation Consolidates All Domestic Intelligence Under FBI, Creating Peacetime Intelligence Monopoly
2 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1939-08-02 | Hatch Act Restricts Federal Workers' Political Activity After Allegations of WPA Election Interference
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal employees | | confirmed |
| 1939-04-03 | Reorganization Act of 1939: FDR Creates Executive Office of the President, Permanent Staff Infrastructure of Modern Presidency
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1938-06-25 | Fair Labor Standards Act Passes Over Fierce Business and Southern Opposition to Minimum Wage and Child Labor Ban
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · Hugo Black · U.S. Congress · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1938-06-16 | Temporary National Economic Committee Launches Comprehensive Investigation of Monopoly and Economic Concentration
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1938-05-26 | Dies Committee (HUAC) Formed by Conservative Democrats to Discredit New Deal as Communist Infiltration
3 src U.S. House of Representatives · Franklin D. Roosevelt | | confirmed |
| 1938-04-29 | FDR Warns Congress That Concentrated Corporate Power Threatens American Democracy with Fascism
2 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1937-07-22 | Senate Defeats FDR Court-Packing Plan 70-22, Handing Roosevelt His Greatest Legislative Defeat
3 src U.S. Senate · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Senate Judiciary Committee · Supreme Court of the United States | | confirmed |
| 1937-06-19 | Little Steel Strike - Steel Companies Defy Wagner Act, Refuse Union Recognition Despite Legal Obligation
3 src John L. Lewis · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1937-05-01 | Roosevelt Recession Begins After Conservative Treasury Secretary Persuades FDR to Cut Spending 17 Percent
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Reserve · U.S. Treasury Department | | confirmed |
| 1937-04-12 | NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel - Supreme Court Upholds Wagner Act in Constitutional Revolution
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Franklin D. Roosevelt · National Labor Relations Board |
| confirmed |
| 1937-03-29 | West Coast Hotel v. Parrish - "Switch in Time" Supreme Court Upholds State Minimum Wage Law
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1937-02-05 | FDR Announces Judicial Reorganization Plan to Add Up to Six Supreme Court Justices, Triggering Court-Packing Crisis
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Supreme Court of the United States · Senate Judiciary Committee · Charles Evans Hughes | | confirmed |
| 1937-02-05 | FDR Court-Packing Plan: Executive Assault on Judicial Independence Establishes Permanent Template
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings |
| confirmed |
| 1936-12-21 | United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export: Sutherland Invents 'Sole Organ' Doctrine of Presidential Foreign-Affairs Supremacy
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · John Marshall |
| confirmed |
| 1936-08-24 | Roosevelt Secret Oral Directive Authorizes FBI General Intelligence Without Statutory Basis
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1936-01-25 | Former Democratic Presidential Candidate Al Smith Delivers Vitriolic Anti-Roosevelt Speech at Liberty League Dinner
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Du Pont family | | confirmed |
| 1936-01-06 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Agricultural Adjustment Act in United States v. Butler, Invalidating Key New Deal Farm Program
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Harlan Fiske Stone · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Department of Agriculture | | confirmed |
| 1935-09-08 | Huey Long Assassinated, Ending "Share Our Wealth" Challenge to Both Corporate Power and New Deal Moderation
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt | | confirmed |
| 1935-08-30 | Revenue Act of 1935 Enacts "Wealth Tax" on Highest Incomes
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · John D. Rockefeller · Democratic Party |
| confirmed |
| 1935-08-26 | Public Utility Holding Company Act Breaks Up Utility Monopolies
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1935-08-23 | Banking Act of 1935 Restructures Federal Reserve, Reduces Wall Street Influence Over Monetary Policy
2 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve Board |
| confirmed |
| 1935-08-14 | Social Security Act Creates Federal Retirement and Unemployment Insurance System Over Business Opposition
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · U.S. Congress · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1935-07-05 | Wagner Act Establishes Federal Protection for Union Rights and Collective Bargaining
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · National Labor Relations Board · American workers |
| confirmed |
| 1935-07-01 | Bureau of Investigation Formally Renamed Federal Bureau of Investigation, Professionalization Era Begins
2 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings | | confirmed |
| 1935-05-27 | "Black Monday" Supreme Court Unanimously Strikes Down National Industrial Recovery Act in Three Anti-New Deal Rulings
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Harlan Fiske Stone · Franklin D. Roosevelt | | confirmed |
| 1935-05-27 | Humphrey's Executor v. United States: Supreme Court Limits Presidential Removal Power, Establishes Constitutional Predicate for Independent Agencies
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · George Sutherland · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1935-05-11 | Rural Electrification Administration Created to Bring Power to Farms Private Utilities Refused to Serve
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1934-11-20 | Marine General Smedley Butler Testifies to Congressional Committee About Wall Street Plot to Overthrow FDR
3 src Du Pont family · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1934-07-02 | Joseph Kennedy Appointed First SEC Chairman - Wall Street Insider to Police Wall Street
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Securities and Exchange Commission · Wall Street | | confirmed |
| 1934-06-19 | Communications Act of 1934 Creates FCC and Consolidates Federal Media Regulation Under Public Interest Standard
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Communications Commission | | confirmed |
| 1934-06-19 | Office of Legal Counsel Established in DOJ Reorganization; Becomes Binding Interpreter of Executive Authority
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings · U.S. Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1934-06-06 | Securities Exchange Act Creates SEC, Regulates Secondary Markets
7 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Ferdinand Pecora |
| confirmed |
| 1934-01-30 | Gold Reserve Act Nationalizes Gold Holdings and Devalues Dollar Over Wall Street Opposition
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve · Wall Street · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1933-06-16 | National Industrial Recovery Act Creates NRA Blue Eagle Program, Enabling Corporate Self-Regulation
9 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1933-06-13 | Home Owners' Loan Corporation Created, Establishes Racial Appraisal Framework
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Home Loan Bank Board |
| confirmed |
| 1933-06-13 | Home Owners' Loan Corporation Creates "Residential Security" Maps: The Federal Government Invents Redlining
3 src Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1933-05-27 | Securities Act of 1933 Establishes Federal Securities Regulation
7 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission · Wall Street |
| confirmed |
| 1933-05-18 | Tennessee Valley Authority Created as Public Power Alternative to Private Utility Monopolies
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1933-03-31 | Civilian Conservation Corps Created as First Federal Youth Employment Program
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · U.S. Army · U.S. Department of Labor |
| confirmed |
| 1933-03-09 | Emergency Banking Act Passes in Eight Hours to Stabilize Collapsing Banking System
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve · Banking industry |
| confirmed |
| 1933-03-09 | FDR Invokes Trading with the Enemy Act in Peacetime for Bank Holiday: Wilson-Era Wartime Statute Becomes Domestic Emergency Instrument
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1933-03-06 | FDR Declares National Bank Holiday, Closing All Banks to Stop Collapse of Financial System
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Banking industry · Federal Reserve |
| confirmed |