Luckily he went on to win the election in November, and was inaugurated on Saturday, March 4, 1933. For his first of four terms.

After three consecutive Republican Presidents in the "Roaring 20s" (1921-1933), Harding, Coolidge and Hoover- their conservative, pro-business and hands off govt. policies led to easy money and wild stock market speculation that ultimately led to the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression.

It was fortunate that FDR's policies, strength and vision saved the people, the country, capitalism and saw us through the worldwide Great Depression and the Second World War.

We are forever grateful to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, FDR's progressive Cabinet and all who helped lead this country through one of the darkest periods it has ever known.

Ever since then it's,
"DEMOCRATS, CLEANING UP AFTER REPUBLICAN MESSES SINCE 1933!".
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~~ FDR MEMORIAL, Washington. D.C., the National Mall. ~~

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How progressive is this?

you are always the progressive that I vision that you are.

He also did some deplorable things. We need to remember them all, or we lose sight of history as it was. Ignoring uncomfortable parts of history is not a progressive value. Not in any way.

Now, if you have a progressive defense for forcing U.S. citizens into internment camps, I'll be happy to read it. So far, I've never seen such a defense.

I know my damn history

Most of us know very little about him. That makes it easy to post only his good decisions. I have deplored the internment of people of Japanese ancestry since I was in high school in the 1960s. It exemplifies to me just how ugly we can be at times and how quickly we can ignore our own Constitution. I have known people who were in those camps. You should talk to some of them.

It's something to remember.

I'd have voted for him nevertheless, had I been born a couple of decades or so earlier than I was. But, he was a flawed man, as all men are.

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in Depression bread lines; wiped out financially from the Crash of 1929; living in communities with no work at 30%; children who had to be sent to friends or others when their family had no money;

people whose parents were Jewish Hungarian prisoners in Auschwitz; uncles who fought and served in the Pacific in WWII; fathers who fought fascists in Greece and Italy; fathers who fought Nazis in Germany and France and liberated Dachau 70 years ago this spring; employers whose father was brought by FDR from NY to Washington in the 1930s to work in FDR's administration.

Everyone condemns the inhumanity and despicable treatment of Japanese Americans in internment camps. I knew and worked with a lawyer loved by everyone whose parents were in a camp. And I've known ALL the people listed above.

You say none of us on DU voted for FDR. Our parents and grandparents did. None of us on DU ever voted for Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, Garfield, Grant, Lincoln, Madison, TJ or GW. So that means 'we don't know them' and therefore we can't discuss, remember, criticize and value them. Unbelievable and absurd.

You say no one knows FDR. Is that so. You judge him essentially on this important but solo issue of the internment camps. My father was fighting in Bavaria exactly this week a few days before VE Day. He was 24 years old, a combat awarded 1st Lieutenant in the 7th Army, AAA, anti aircraft artillery, in the Rhineland Campaign, the Liberation of Dachau and the Army of Occupation.

MY FATHER'S COMMANDER IN CHIEF WAS-- President FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT and HE KNEW IT and my MOTHER KNEW IT and so do WE CHILDREN and the GRANDCHILDREN.

You should stick with HOOVER MAN, and HOOVERVILLES as the other poster said. You have some nerve especially this week, V-E, Victory in Europe Day May 8, 1945 and three weeks after FDR died April 12, 1945, both 70 years ago this spring.