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Reagan says New Dealers favored fascism in Roosevelt era
President Reagan in a PBS interview claimed many Roosevelt aides favored fascism, while Roosevelt himself supported New Deal reforms as crisis remedies. Arthur Schlesinger Jr disputed the charge, calling it a gross distortion of history, and the discussion touched on Reagan's past comments linking fascism to the New Deal and current European peace protests.
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Associated Press
Washington
Reagan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Public Broadcasting Service
Ben Wattenberg
Wattenberg
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
Schlesinger
FDR
Mussolini
Harold Ickes
Interior
Time Magazine
Brain Trust
New Deal
Ickes
Europe
Denmark
Switzerland
Italy
West Germany
Romania
U.S
America
World Peace Council
John A. Sullivan
American Friends Service Committee
Sullivan
Herbert Scoville
The
Arms Control Association
CIA
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Scoville