You will notice in it that he is a true believer in government being the solution and that he does not have a grasp on what a free market is or what it can do. Many of his New Deal policies that he enacted we are still paying for today.
We tend to think of the depression as one long event that lasted from October 1929 until Dec. 7, 1941. A picture is emerging for me from the newspapers of the time and from the fireside chat that Americans of the time saw things differently. There are references to new recessions and improvements. I should start looking for unemployment figures in the papers as we move along. My rusty understanding is that unemployment remained unwaveringly high right until our entry into the war and the New Deal programs were more feel-good than objectively productive.