FILE - In this March 26, 1937, file photo, Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers make copper utensils for Pima County Hospital in Texas. The New Deal was a try-anything moment during the Great Depression that remade the role of the federal government in American life. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this March 1933, file photo, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his first radio "fireside chat" in Washington. The New Deal was a try-anything moment during the Great Depression that remade the role of the federal government in American life. (AP Photo)

FILE - This Aug. 26, 2010, file photo shows the Timberline Lodge in Timberline Lodge, Ore. The Lodge, a National Historic Landmark, was built as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project during the Great Depression. The New Deal was a try-anything moment during the Great Depression that remade the role of the federal government in American life. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 2, 1936, file photo, President Franklin Roosevelt at the new 21-story medical unit which he dedicated in Jersey City, N.J., assuring the medical profession that the New Deal contemplated no action detrimental to it in carrying out the Social Security Act. At left is Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City and at right is military aide Lt. Col. E.M. Watson. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - In this March 9, 1936, file photo Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers build a new farm-to-market road along Knob Creek in Tennessee. The New Deal was a try-anything moment during the Great Depression that remade the role of the federal government in American life. (AP Photo, File)