Save the cheerleader , save the world <| sep |> Would have been delay of game if not for it anyways . <| sep |> FDR plagued america with debt , and america responded to him or his party rather , carried by truman with eisenhower in the 1950 s America responded to Roosevelt ' s policies by reelecting him twice , making him the longest serving president in US history . He probably could have gotten a fourth if he hadn ' t died . hoovers answer was to do nothing , and let america naturally heal What ? No it wasn ' t . Hoover ' s response was the SmootHawley Tariff Act of 1930 . The act that further crushed American industry and drove us deeper into the depression . Unemployment was less than 10 % before SmootHawley and jumped to 25 % after . The New Deal and WW 2 were necessary to undo the damage that Hoover did .