In his first One Hundred Days in office, President Roosevelt created an "alphabet soup" of new federal agencies giving jobs and relief to people and transforming the American landscape with public works projects. Nowhere was this transformation more apparent than in Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's New York City. FDR, the American aristocrat, and LaGuardia, the immigrants' son, were unlikely partners, yet together they expanded and redefined the role of government in the people's lives.