After three years of hardship, the American public expressed their dissatisfaction with Herbert Hoover. In 1932, they elected governor of New York Franklin Delano Roosevelt as president in a landslide victory. Roosevelt was a different kind of man than Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt came from a life of privilege in New York and was a career politician who dedicated his life to public service. Hoover was a mining engineer and a self-made man who made his fortune in business. The two presidents were both compassionate men who sought to ease suffering but practiced different philosophies of government. Whereas Hoover had tried to preserve the spirit of self-reliance and practice a hands-off approach toward business, Roosevelt believed in widely expanding the role of government in relieving economic hardship and protecting the public from business. He described his plans as the New Deal. This was a completely new approach since...