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Roosevelt was a successful leader as President of the United States. He won the Presidential election in 1932 and would go on to win a total of four terms. When elected President in 1932, the United States was in the midst of the Great Depression, more than 13,000,000 American were unemployed and most of the Nation’s banks were closed. President Roosevelt proposed to enact programs that would provide relief to the unemployed and those about to lose their homes and farms (The White House, 2014). Roosevelt implemented programs such as, Social Security, heftier taxes for the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and massive work relief plans for the unemployed. When Roosevelt was reelected in 1936, he attempted to enlarge the Supreme Court and lost, however, he was able to transform constitutional law that allowed the Government to regulate the economy (The White House,