In Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, what does Zinn see as FDR's role in events?

Zinn
essentially accepts the familiar narrative that Franklin Roosevelt was the architect of the New
Deal, and he stresses the president's role in preserving capitalism by "stabilizing the
system." Zinn does not deny that the New Deal made major reforms, far beyond anything the
federal government contemplated doing before. However, he stresses that the New Deal did very
little (by design) to fix the structures that led to the Great Depression in the first
place:

When the New Deal was over, capitalism remained
intact. The rich still controlled the nation's wealth, as well as its laws, courts, police,
newspapers, churches, colleges. Enough help had been given to enough people to make Roosevelt a
hero to millions, but the same system that had brought depression and crisis . . .
remained.

Zinn's argument is that this was...