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1936 › Alf Landon (Republican) › National economic planning

End federal regimentation: no revival of NRA or AAA controls, no more emergency powers over production, wages and hours

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Solution

Free enterprise 'from incessant governmental intimidation'; refuse national economic planning that tells farmers what to plant and workers how many hours to work; make the President answer whether he will re-enact NRA and AAA.

Rationale

'No nation can continue half regimented and half free'; national economic planning 'starts on the assumption that the people are not capable of looking after their own affairs.'

Statements (3)

1936-07-23 · Acceptance address, Topeka · conventioncandidate_direct ✓ verified

We must be freed from incessant governmental intimidation and hostility. We must be freed from excessive expenditures and crippling taxation. We must be freed from the effects of an arbitrary and uncertain monetary policy. And, through a vigorous enforcement of the anti-trust laws, we must be freed from private monopolistic control.

Source: Address Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination in Topeka, Kansas (1936-07-23)

1936-10-13 · Detroit (Washington Times text) · generalcandidate_direct ✓ verified

If we have an NRA we must have an AAA. If we have an AAA we must have an NRA. No nation can continue half regimented and half free.

Source: Liberty doomed under rule of Roosevelt, Landon says at Detroit; part text (Washington Times, Oct. 14, 1936, p. 4) (1936-10-14)

1936-10-29 · Madison Square Garden, New York (Evening Star text) · generalcandidate_direct ✓ verified

I intend to throw out all plana based on scarcity. I Intend to put an end to this administration's policy of "try any thing once." The time has come for a steady hand at the wheel.

Source: Texts of Landon's New York Addresses (Evening Star, Oct. 30, 1936, p. 41) (1936-10-30)

Follow-through

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The opposite occurred: the AAA of 1938 restored production controls and the FLSA imposed federal wage-hour rules; but NRA-style codes and price fixing were not revived.

Reception (1)

editorialaccuratesalience high Evening Star, 'Landon's Challenge' 1936-10-14

The Detroit speech 'brought the campaign to a focus' on the President's alleged violation of the American system; Landon's questions on NRA and AAA revival and constitutional amendment were the issue.

Gov. Landon's speech at Detroit last night brought the campaign to a focus. It gave specific expression to a question that is unmistakably the issue between the administration seeking a return to power and the party that is seeking to effect a change.

Source: Evening Star editorial page, Oct. 14, 1936

Other positions on this issue

National economic planning on the model of the 1917 war mobilization — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 directional_stance
Industry leaders to organize cooperatively for the common good; government regulates only as a last resort — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 directional_stance

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