Hey FDR was not even FDR. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was the real FDR.

The female 1st Cabinet Secretary in US history she was appointed only 12 years after women got the right to vote in the US and as soon as a Democrat became President.
FDR campaigned on cutting government spending by 25% because he thought the depression was a cyclical thing we would come out of naturally and soon.
Then all the banks failed the week before he took the oath of office and FDR realized he needed real answers from people who would tell him the truth.
That's how he got Frances in his cabinet.
So Frances Perkins became one of his closest advisers and working behind the scenes with a number of other secretly influential women in the White House started making him the President we remember now.
Perkins created the 40 hour work week, federal minimum wage, child labor laws and Social Security then practically forced FDR to implement them.
She made him the liberal, tough President we recall so lovingly now and made him ready to lead the US through WWII.
She was the one who made him the man we know just like a coming of age film.
So when you think of FDR as your liberal God you must also think of Frances Perkins.
Because it's not the President that actually does things, it's the people he hires that do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Perkins