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In reply to the discussion: This is what a REAL Democrat sounds like. [View all]pampango
(24,692 posts)the World Bank, the UN and the International Trade Organization (though the republican senate eventually rejected the ITO as too much of an infringement on national sovereignty).
He was a big believer in international engagement and in multilateral institutions to govern international trade, politics and finance.
Back in his day it was the republicans who were the protectionists (having raised tariffs 3 times from 1921 to 1930) and isolationists (accusing FDR of being a 'warmonger' and 'interventionist' prior to Pearl Harbor). FDR did act fast to get congress to pass 'fast track' authority in 1934 so that he could negotiate trade agreements. (Of course, republicans then accused him of "secretly has made tariff agreements with our foreign competitors, flooding our markets with foreign commodities."