| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | irishgit (150)
05/15/2008 | It's not like no one saw this coming. Truman did a better than expected job of filling out his term.
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 | James76255 (23)
05/11/2005 | Frankly, everybody has to die sooner or later. He was old, in poor health, and even he knew he wouldn't live through another term in office. I don't think his death had as much impact as the decisions he made about Truman as VP and other members of the administration going into his fourth term.
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 | tdubya71 (0)
04/23/2004 | Roosevelt was pretty old and wracked by bad health when he died. The only person who thought it was very important was Adolf Hitler, who rejoiced that day. But Hitler himself didn't have long to live.
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 | abichara (63)
02/26/2004 |  Most people in the know realized that FDR had very little time to live. He had heart disease, poor circulation that was related to his polio and respiratory problems. By the 1944 election, he was a skeleton of his former self. The tragedy of it all was that he failed to keep Truman informed about the happenings on the war front, particularly concerning the atom bomb and the Russians. Luckily Truman was a quick learner. FDR was a talented politician, but he also had a huge ego. I guess he didn't realize that no one was indispensible. It was the height of irresponsibility to keep Truman out of the loop. Like him or not, people were lost in the days after Roosevelt died. Many of his policies had an adverse affect on the US economy and social system. Looking at economic indicators from the day, it is apparent that the New Deal didn't lift America out of the Depression; indeed by 1938 was once again in a deep recession. The Depression lifted only because of the war production which began in 1940. But one can't really deny the force that this personality was on the political scene. He truly was the master of his time.
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 | Jed1000 (74)
10/27/2003 | No.. no one is idispensible. And he wasn't everyone's favorite person.. that's for sure. But since his death happened in the middle of a major world-wide calamity I think that psychologically the effect must have been enormous.
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 | zuchinibut (41)
08/31/2003 | Not very tragic compared to the rest of the things expressed here.
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 | Solenoid DH (20)
08/21/2003 | Why was FDR's death tragic? EVERYONE dies! This is just the only President we ever had who was so maniacal that he refused to leave office UNTIL he died. If he were still alive, he would be WAY over 100 years old, and would still be ruling us, and THAT would be a tragedy.
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 | President -X-D (7)
08/13/2003 | So long, Lenin... oops, I mean FDR.
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 | CastleBee (85)
08/06/2003 | No one is indispensable.
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 | LadyShark4534 (12)
08/03/2003 | Not tragic at all! He betrayed our own citizens multiple times! He put the Japanese Americans in camps! He put anyone who spoke out publicy against the war in jail! I think it's great he died! Truman actually let the Japanese Americans out of the camps and prisons!
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