Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.” ~ Rexford Tugwell (1891-1979) American agricultural economist, served in FDR's administration, one of the chief intellectual contributors to the New Deal, director of the New York City Planning Commission, Governor of Puerto Rico, and a professor at various universities.Source: quoted by Roger Pilon, Restoring Constitutional Government, CATO’S LETTER #9, p. 3, published by the Cato Institute (1995).