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The "brain trust" was the name given to a diverse group of academics who served as advisers to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The group, first suggested in March 1932 by Roosevelt's legal counsel Samuel Rosenman, included Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, and Adolf Berle of Columbia University, attorney Basil O'Connor, and later Felix Frankfurter of Harvard Law School. These men played a key role in shaping the New Deal. Although they never met as a group after Roosevelt's inauguration, most of them served in official posts during his presidency.
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