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New DealNew DealRemember Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt’s Square DealSquare Deal, government programs designed to restrict the powerpower of industry? Another Roosevelt, Teddy’s cousin, this one named Franklin Delano or just FDRRoosevelt, Franklin Delano (FDR)FDR see also Roosevelt, Franklin Delano for short, faced with the massive problems of the Great DepressionGreat Depression, developed another Deal, this one called the New DealNew Deal, to deal with the fact that millions of Americans faced economic hardship of a kind not known before in the Land of OpportunityLand of Opportunity ( 3). A newer New Deal was often mentioned as a possible response from the ObamaObama, Barack administration to the economic crisis seventy-five years after FDR began his revolutionary programs of government intervention in the economy. In spite of or because of the economic crisis FDR served longer than any other presidentpresident – being elected four times with his administrations stretching from the Great Depression almost to the end of World War IWorld War IWorld War III ( 6). The 22^nd Amendment22nd Amendment to the ConstitutionConstitution would later prohibit presidents from serving more than two terms, so President Obama didn’t have as long as FDR did to lead the country out of another economic crisis.