The new spending evoked shrieks of dismay from conservatives Democratic Sen. Harry Byrd of condemned the "present orgy of spending" and demanded a balanced budget and a ruthless purge of relief rolls. But it halted the recession in its tracks. Unlike Obama, Roosevelt not shy about expressing the principles and goals at stake. To abandon the was quest for jobs and growth would be "to miss the tide and perhaps the port; I propose to sail ahead," the nautically minded president told America in a Fireside Chat in April 1938. For to reach a port we must sail sail, not lie at anchor, sail, not drift.