Franklin Delano Roosevelt was relatively unknown to politics until his campaign for presidency in 1932. He won the landslide election not because the public was sure he was capable of pulling the country out of the depression, but more because they wanted change from Hoover who seemed to have no set plan for dealing with the depression. The nation was hoping for a miracle. Their wish was granted when the enthusiastic and charismatic president Roosevelt proposed a record of 15 bills to congress within the first 100 days of office. Thus was the start of the new deal and for the first time the government took an active role in the organizing of private businesses and farms, as well as in individual people's lives. In Roosevelt's inaugural speech he states, "I pledge to you, I pledge to myself, to a new deal for the American people. Give me your help, not to win votes alone but to win this crusade to restore America to its own people. The most important effect of the first 100 days is......

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Title: Fdr New Deal
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