The_Great_Depression

The Great Depression The United States struggled through the depression but got through it by many different ways. I was the press secretary in 1932. At the start of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency the U.S. was in the greatest depths of the depression. In his first Inaugural Address in 1933 he stated that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ”1 FDR’s main goal was trying to restore confidence to the people. He was also letting them know that as a Nation we can get out of the depression, and the only thing that is keeping us in it is ourselves. During the depression Roosevelt tried one thing after another such as, heavy spending, public works, direct relief, NRA codes, regulation of industry and restrictions on spending. FDR also stated that, “Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. ”2 FDR thought that the government needed to be in charge by building and creating new jobs. As soon as people went back to work they would have an income and could afford to start buying things and paying for things which in the end would give the economy a boost. FDR started lots of work programs federal, relief, banks, work, helped, government, farmers, depression, act, people, new, emergency, agricultural, administration, through, programs, private, land, first, fdr, works, women, very, thing, theaters, stated, nation, migrants, lots, loans, labor, industrial, established, end, direct