The Work Progress Administration (WPA) was one of the most effective of the New Deal measures. Financed by taxes collected by the federal government, the WPA created millions of jobs by undertaking the construction of roads, bridges, airports, hospitals, parks and pubic buildings. Roosevelt's New Deal programs did not end the Depression. Although the economy improved as a result of this program of government intervention, full recovery was finally brought about by the defense buildup prior to America's entering the Second World War. This buildup, undertaken to aid the Allies of the United States in their battle against aggression, absorbed surplus manpower into war industries and the armed forces. But many Americans, young and old, still feel great affection for Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president who remembered 'the forgotten men at the bottom of the economic pyramid.' In the author's opinion, the Work Progress Administration was