A New Deal for Americans By 1932, many Americans were fed up with Hoover and what Franklin Roosevelt later called his “hear nothing, see nothing, do nothing government.” The Democratic presidential candidate, New York governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, promised a change: “I pledge myself,” he said, “to a New Deal for the American people.” This New Deal used the power of the federal government to try and improve the economy. Roosevelt won that year’s election handily.
The First Hundred Days
The new president said, “wage a war