the people were going through, and Hoover did not. Hoover would not change his views on the government giving out aid and relief to the public. He and his team were confident that they would have no trouble at all being reelected, but they were wrong. On election day when the votes had all been counted, Franklin D. Roosevelt carried forty-two states while Hebert Hoover had won only six. It was a landslide for Roosevelt. During the presidential inauguration of 1933, everyone stopped working to hear what their new leader had to say to them. "Let me first assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-by: (Roosevelt) unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." He then explained that Americans needed to treat this crisis as if the United States had been invaded by some foreign enemy. He stayed up all night with his advisors and started planning out the details of the New Deal. On the Monday of his first week in office, he announced that he was closing all of the banks in the country until they could safely reopen and pay their customers the billions of dollars that were owed to them. His objective was to save America from a total collapse of the economy, which was something that he saw happening in the very near future. He wanted to improve businesses and profits,without it looking like he was moving toward Socialism. In the first week after he became the President, Roosevelt had his first "fireside chat" with America. He sat down with the nation and simply explained all of the different steps and ideas that he had planned to use in order to pull the country out of the depression. Americans really responded to these chats, and he soon gained wide-spread popularity. The new President said this about his "New Deal" in one of his famous fireside chats, "Take a method and try it, if it fails, try another. But above all, try something." In a three month period, Roose...
