During the four-month interregnum, however, Americans continued to endure President Hoover’s failed policies, which led the winter of 1932-1933 to be the worst of the Depression, with unemployment rising to record levels Franklin Roosevelt was a wealthy, well-educated, and popular politician whose history of polio made him a more sympathetic figure to the public.

He did not share any specifics of his plan to bring the country out of the Great Depression, but his attitude of optimism and possibility contrasted strongly with Hoover’s defeated misery. The 1932 election was never really in question, and Roosevelt won in a landslide.

interregnum — the period between the election and the inauguration of a new president; when economic conditions worsened significantly during the four-month lag between Roosevelt’s win and his…. Brains Trust — an unofficial advisory cabinet to President Franklin Roosevelt, originally gathered while he was governor of New York, to present possible solutions to the nations’ problems…. Civilian Conservation Corps — a public program for unemployed young men from relief families who were put to work on conservation and land management projects around the country. Social Security — a series of programs designed to help the population’s most vulnerable—the unemployed, those over age sixty-five, unwed mothers, and the disabled—through various pension….