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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, was first elected to the Presidency in 1932. The polio sufferer led the nation through the Great Depression and World War II. He was re-elected three times, serving until his death on April 12, 1945 at Warm Springs, Georgia.

 


Chagoth

Franklin Rossevelt was not a great president. Everyone blames Hoover's policies for getting America into the Depression but FDR had the same policies for the first six years of his presidency! Those policies only extended and deepened the Depression. And the New Deal was a disaster. It created a culture of dependency and helped socialize America. We still suffer from FDR's New Deal policies to this day. However, FDR had singular vision and fortitude when it came to WWII. FDR defeated Nazism and he should be lauded for his wartime policies. The combination of bad domestic policies and superb wartime policies makes FDR only an average president. If I ranked all forty-two presidents from best to worst, FDR would likely fall somewhere between fourteen and twenty. FDR, along with his distant cousin Teddy Roosevelt, is the most over-rated president in U.S. history.
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• Review posted on 07/27/2005
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