Further back - I believe FDR laid the ground work.
THE FED
I agree with the FDR line.
Truman was chosen because they needed no informed, to shape his replacement. Eisenhower was afraid of the giant military complex. Kennedy was shot. LBJ who had his hand on everything aerospace in Texas, at least kept the space program, and, with his great society program, said himself, that it would keep all the black folks vote for a hundred years.sinvr then, it’s been test program after test program, to see what they could get away with, and buffer it if ever challenged constitutionally
Wilson was no prize.
Right... not forgetting that JFK killed Diem and his brother. NO one wants to talk about that
Took the US off the gold standard
further back ... woodrow wilson ...