President Franklin D. Roosevelt's program of relief, recovery, and reform that aimed at solving the economic problems created by the Depression of the 1930's, was referred to as the New Deal. The Great Society was the name given to the domestic program of the U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson. Both programs had similar yet opposing points.
Something had to be done about the banking system disintegration, and the most conservative business leaders were as ready for government intervention as the most advanced radicals (Garraty 765). It was unquestionably Franklin D. Roosevelt who provided the spark that reenergized the American people (Garraty 765). "His inaugural address, delivered in a raw mist beneath dark March skies, reassured the country and at the same time stirred it to action" (Garraty 765). Accepting the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination, Roosevelt said, "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people" (Stevenson 125). "The New Deal......
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