“This nation demands action, and action now”4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the lead on the day he took office as president: I commit you, I commit myself, to a New Deal for the American people. He denounces the depression in which he found himself. “In the latter half of the 1930s, as the country was in the grip of the Great Depression, the Supreme Court reversed course” in favor of FDR5’s “legislative economic recovery program.” As the United States was in economic decline in a depression, a set of laws were put in place by Congress, supported by FDR, to recover. New Deal programs expanded economic mobility by providing relief to the population, reforming government, and recovering from economic disaster. The first step of the three "Rs" plan is emergency relief, providing direct aid to reduce the suffering of the poor and unemployment. FDR abandoned the gold standard for U.S. currency in order to put more money into circulation. This tempered many large companies, but JP Morgan proclaimed that "the abandonment of gold saved the country from complete collapse"4. The circulation of greater amounts of money made it easier for civilians to obtain it and begin supporting themselves again. This step gave people what they needed, as FDR broadcast radio broadcasts, to give them hope and keep them motivated to improve and help reduce unemployment significantly. In 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps became one of the most popular programs of the New Deal. Becoming “the fastest mobilization in American history,” this program ended up putting several thousand young men to work on conservation and forestry projects, giving them all a new lease on paper.... .. but that didn't really get them completely out of that situation, just kept the United States from completely going under during that time. Historian Richard Hofstadter commented: "The New Deal may have been a failure in the 1930s, but it was certainly a success in the 1950s!" »3 due to the fact that FDR allowed the United States to grow significantly after World War II, which was the event that truly brought the United States out of the depression. The New Deal did indeed fail in some of its programs, but FDR was willing to try anything to keep hope alive for the American people and relief for the economy. The New Deal programs kept the American people going and that is what FDR strived to do. The three "R's" of relieving the people, reforming the government, and recovering from economic disaster gave the United States enough economic mobility to get to World War II..