FDR's Brain Trust
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Delegates,
Welcome to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Brain Trust. The year is 1933 and America is stuck deep in the Great Depression. The weak response of the Herbert Hoover administration accomplished almost nothing and the future of America looks bleak. The banks are failing, millions are unemployed, the agricultural industry is in shambles, and all confidence in the government has been lost. Franklin Delano Roosevelt has just been elected and the people demand change. This is why you, some of the greatest minds of your time, have been assembled- to solve this crisis. As his revered Brain Trust, you must help the president formulate the economic and social policies that will become the New Deal. President Roosevelt has asked that the policies you create be grouped into three different phases: relief, recovery, and reform. The first phase, relief, will be focused on providing aid to the unemployed and impoverished. This will included public employment programs as well as efforts to improve conditions for the poor. Policies under the recovery stage will concentrate on bringing the economy back to normal after the Great Depression. This will include legislation that regulates the farming and manufacturing industries, as well as, attempts to fix issues plaguing the economy like deflation. The final group of laws will work to reform the country’s financial system and enact long-lasting welfare programs to act as a safety net for future crises. The country is in dire need of change and it is your job as members of the Brain Trust to create this change and help save the country from sinking deeper into this depression.
We are excited to be your chairs for such an exciting weekend! We’d also like to remind you to write a position paper; the guidelines for this are on gsmun.net and if you have any questions feel free to email us at [email protected]. This is to be emailed to the dais before the conference or turned in physically at the first committee session. Without a position paper you cannot be considered for awards. We’d like to remind you that all of your work on your position paper must be original; plagiarism is unacceptable and will result in disciplinary actions by the Secretariat. We look forward to meeting you and hearing your well-prepared debate!
We are excited to be your chairs for such an exciting weekend! We’d also like to remind you to write a position paper; the guidelines for this are on gsmun.net and if you have any questions feel free to email us at [email protected]. This is to be emailed to the dais before the conference or turned in physically at the first committee session. Without a position paper you cannot be considered for awards. We’d like to remind you that all of your work on your position paper must be original; plagiarism is unacceptable and will result in disciplinary actions by the Secretariat. We look forward to meeting you and hearing your well-prepared debate!
Chairs
Jake Zaslav |
Elijah Trexler |
Jake Zaslav is a Junior at Maggie Walker Governor’s School for Government and International Studies (there might be more to the name but no one actually knows). He is very excited to serve as the Co-Chair for the FDR Brain Trust Committee, which takes place during his favorite period of American history. This is Jake’s third year as a staffer for GSMUN, serving previously as a Vice Chair for the Afghan National Assembly Committee and a Crisis Secretary for the Yom Kippur War Committee. This gave him experience both in committee and in crisis scenarios. When he is not drowning in Maggie Walker’s homework load, Jake enjoys playing smooth jazz on his trumpet, slappin’ de bass with his band mates, and running in circles with cross-country. Jake has also founded and directs Music Orchard, a volunteer organization that provides inner city elementary school band and orchestra students with free private music lessons.
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