He won overwhelmed his opposition in 4 elections. What do the right wing revisionists of today know that the majority of apparently ignorant voters didn't know at the time?

Deserves minus 200 stars.An abomination domestically.Socialistic welfare state fluff,packing the Supreme Court,horrible on civil rights none too intelligent,abused his power by siccing(hope I spelled it right) the federal government on political opponents,presided over a whale of a recession,etc.If there is any worse domestic President than this turkey...well,we are all in trouble.

Thanks for the welfare system.

As president, Herbert Hoover attempted to reform the New York Stock Exchange, concerned over the dangers of excessive stock market speculation. Most of this reform fell outside his jurisdiction. Whose jurisdiction did it fall under, you may ask? None other than the Governor of New York, Franklin Roosevelt, who resisted all counsel of moderation. This is not to mention his immensely flawed New Deal social programs. It is interesting to note that unemployment was approximately 25% after four years of the Hoover administration; after four years of the Roosevelt administration, 1937, it was still around 25%. What prompted the economic turnaround of the early 40's? WWII, and the thriving factories that produced items to assist the U.S. effort during WWII. Roosevelt is the most overrated president of the 20th century.

Typically both progressive, charismatic and open-minded enough (though tentative, which is fair) to accept bold new solutions to problems. I won't go into the details of how the New Deal was largely the result of John Maynard Keynes but needless to say, I think the New Deal was a great success. The Emergency Banking Act/Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation helped restore faith in private investment and bought confidence back to the stockholders and due to the increased consumer demand created by higher wages and less unemployment (which had been cut by over 9% by 1940 and 16% by the end of Roosevelts tenure) investment in industry flourished (private investment in industry went from $2 billion to $10 billion in 1939). Many try to say FDR had racist policies but don't forget the hugely liberating Indian Reorganization act which ended the sale of tribal lands and restored ownership of unallocated lands to Native American groups. FDR appreciated labour movements and set a legitimate minimum wage and effectively banned all child labour in the Fair Labour Standards act. He established the social security act which helped many millions feel much safer. So many millions still benefit as a result of programs he started. Roosevelt was a bold man who realized major changes had to be made to help end the depression and prevented it being prolonged by correctly realizing We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Due much to Franklin Roosevelt, America's economy recovered. He was really popular, otherwise he wouldn't have been elected four times.

Socialist waste of space.

The worst President the country ever had. The New Deal failed. He knew Pearl Harbor was going to happen and refused to do anything about it. He locked up Asians in concentration camps for nothing at all. The man was a complete disgust.

The New Deal was a true disaster for this country (and oddly, almost exactly the kind of Hoover-ite stupidity that FDR campaigned AGAINST in 1932). FDR managed to make the severe depression he inherited last for a whole decade. In the process, he created the maze of bureacracies and financially unstable entitlement programs that haunt American policy today. FDR's Social Security was based on policy's of Keynes, the economist who -- when asked about the long run problems his Ponzi Scheme would create -- responded in the long run, we'll all be dead. Well, true enough for Keynes, but some of us are living his long run and it ain't going to be pretty when the Baby Boomers retire. All this, foisted upon us by FDR, the man who also tried to pack the Supreme Court and thereby undo our nation's time honored checks and balances. Of course, he's also the man that broke Washington's precedent about not seeking third terms, and gracefully handing over power. Terrible things all.