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1936 › Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) › Flood control and river-basin development

Continue drought and flood aid and a nation-wide flood-control and water-conservation policy

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Solution

Aid those visited by drought and floods; conserve water 'from its source to the sea'; a national flood-control policy.

Rationale

The 1936 drought and the spring floods of 1936 made disaster aid one of government's 'inescapable obligations.'

Statements (2)

1936-06-25 · Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia (platform) · conventionparty_platform ✓ verified

We have aided and will continue to aid those who have been visited by widespread drought and floods, and have adopted a Nation-wide flood-control policy.

Source: 1936 Democratic Party Platform (1936-06-23)

1936-10-31 · Madison Square Garden, New York · generalcandidate_direct ✓ verified

for the conservation of water all the way from its source to the sea, for drought and flood control

Source: Address at Madison Square Garden, New York City (1936-10-31)

Follow-through

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Drought relief continued through the 1936-37 winter; the Great Plains committee program (Feb. 1937), the water-conservation report (May 1937) and the Flood Control Act of 1938 gave the Corps of Engineers a national basin-by-basin program; Ohio-Mississippi flood relief followed the January 1937 flood.

Mechanisms

Date	Type	Name	Effect	Consistent?	Source
1937-02-10	message	Message on a program for the Great Plains charted on: Cash receipts from farm marketings · Index of construction contracts awarded (cost-adjusted) · Index of prices received by farmers (1910–14=100) · Unemployment rate (BLS, 1948–) · Unemployment rate (NBER series, 1929–1942)	Long-range drought-area program.	yes	Message to Congress on a Program for the Great Plains Area.
1937-05-12	message	Message transmitting the water conservation and flood control report charted on: Cash receipts from farm marketings · Index of construction contracts awarded (cost-adjusted) · Index of prices received by farmers (1910–14=100) · Unemployment rate (BLS, 1948–) · Unemployment rate (NBER series, 1929–1942)	National water plan.	yes	Message to Congress Transmitting a Report Water Conservation and Flood Control.
1938-06-28	statute	Flood Control Act of 1938 charted on: Cash receipts from farm marketings · Index of construction contracts awarded (cost-adjusted) · Index of prices received by farmers (1910–14=100) · Unemployment rate (BLS, 1948–) · Unemployment rate (NBER series, 1929–1942)	Dams, levees and reservoirs nationwide. authorized civil engineering projects such as dams , levees , dikes , and other flood control measures through the United States Army Corps of Engineers	yes	Flood Control Act of 1938 - Wikipedia

Assessments

kept Wikipedia contributors — Flood Control Act of 1938 - Wikipedia

A permanent federal flood-control program was in place by 1938.

Other positions on this issue

Federal construction of head-water storage basins to prevent floods, with the consent of the States concerned — Alf Landon, 1936 specific_pledge

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