Yes, but he didn't send federal agents around to people's houses to confiscate any gold they might have. Prior to that executive order, presumably, most Americ

Yes, but he didn't send federal agents around to people's houses to confiscate any gold they might have. Prior to that executive order, presumably, most Americans kept their gold in bank deposit boxes. In my opinion that executive order should have been overturned as unconstitutional. But Roosevelt owned the courts.