New Deal/New York
episode 3 (60 min.)
In his first one hundred days in office, in a effort to stem the effects of the
Great Depression, President Roosevelt created many new federal agencies giving
jobs and relief to people and transforming the American landscape with public
works projects. Nowhere was this transformation more apparent than in Mayor
Fiorello La Guardia's New York City. Together Roosevelt and La Guardia expanded
and redefined the role of government in the lives of the American people.
