What was the first major action FDR took as president?
“Four months would elapse between Roosevelt’s victory in the November 1932 election and his inauguration as president in March 1933. The 20th Amendment, which moved presidential inaugurations to January, was not ratified until February 1933 and did not apply to the 1932 election. FDR was not idle during this waiting period, however. He worked with his team of carefully picked advisers- a select group of professors, lawyers, and journalists that cm to be known as the “British Trust.” Roosevelt began to formulate a set of policies for his new administration. This program, designed to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression became known as the New Deal, a phrase taken from a campaign speech in which Roosevelt had promised “a new deal for the American people.” New deal policies focused on three general goals: relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform.” -McDougal Littell, The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century.
