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Roosevelt addressed the challenges he faced in a very pragmatic manner. While running for president, he underlined the need for employment as a result of the 1929 crisis. More precisely even, in order to reach the highest position in the United States, he used his conceptions regarding the reorganization of the United States in order to defeat Hoover. In this sense, the Hoover administration was accused of being the "greatest spending Administration in peace times in all of our history." It had "piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission . . ." At the same time Hoover was condemned for the modesty of his relief efforts (Abbot, 1990, 22). Still, once he reached the Presidents office he dwelt on the need for the US to recover and created the New Deal, a program that would ensure the recovery of the economy as well as that of the population. These discussions however made him one of the most popular presidents of the history of the US especially taking into account the fact that at the moment of Roosevelts election, there were over 13 million unemployed (Abbot, 1990, 4)

Concerning the reconstruction of the country, he introduced measures which were considered

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