The first modern self - described liberal Democratic President was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who enacted the New Deal, a series of social liberal programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938 and a few that came later. (en.wikipedia.org)
Trudeau, in effect, unilaterally changed this convention, making «reproductive freedom» for the first time a nonnegotiable element of the federal Liberal program. (firstthings.com)
Many if not most of the great liberal programs since the New Deal have served to enhance the power and privilege (not to mention the prestige) of the new class; not surprisingly, its members are devoted to these programs. (religion-online.org)