Following the pattern of "promising the opposite of what you intend to do," this candidate was sold to the American people as "a man of the little people" who would stand up to Wall Street. And, so it was that in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president of the movement to socialize the United States began. This revolutionary plan was known as the "New Deal." The main agency created to carry out the revolution was the National Recovery Act (NRA). It was headed by representatives from Wall Street and big business. These socialists set out to regulate prices, wages, and working conditions throughout America. Controls were carried to such an extreme that a New Jersey tailor was fined and jailed for pressing a suit for five cents lower than the government allowed. Every move upon the part of the socialist planners served to prolong the depression, with unemployment being greater at the end of Roosevelt's first term in office than at the beginning. One event that slowed, but never stopped, America's descent into socialism was the Supreme Court's labeling of the fascist (merging of state and business) measures of the National Recovery Act as unconstitutional. Although slowed down in their plans to socialize the United States, the planners continued to work toward conditions that would lead to world government. While secretly preparing for war, Roosevelt, like Wilson, campaigned for reelection on a pledge that "Your boys with of 102 The Secret Side of History United States. As soon as Roosevelt was installed in office, the at the end