Who was the better president: Theodore Roosevelt or Franklin Roosevelt?
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I'd have to say Theodore.  He launched the US into the world power that we are today.  Franklin got us thru the depression, but it took World War 2 to get us OUT of the depression.
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I believe what makes a great president are a combination of extremely good ethics and a well defined understanding of the human factor involved in such great responsibility. \n\nThe president who uses these best has worked towards balancing National domestic needs and International good will.\n\nAs selected by the Democrats, and leading the list for best President since 1945 is Ronald Reagan. \n\nSurprisingly, the same is true of the Republicans. They considered him over Abraham Lincoln.  See list:\nPoll Results: Which Republican President Was Best?  \nAbraham Lincoln     34.69% \nTeddy Roosevelt     16.33% \nCalvin Coolidge         6.12% \nHerbert Hoover          0 0% \nDwight D. Eisenhower    0 0% \nRichard Nixon     2.04% \nGerald Ford    0 0% \nRonald Reagan     36.73% \nGeorge HW Bush     2.04% \nGeorge W Bush      2.04% \n\nOf course there are those in Princeton who think George Bush is the best...I guess they don't follow the news.\n\nAnyway, as a Canadian, it was President Clinton and President Franklin D. Roosevelt who impressed me the most.
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George Washington is by far the best President to date. He had no idea what he was getting himself into, but took the job anyway. He served the Untied States in the same way he had served the colonies during the Revolution, with complete control and undying support. When asked if he would continue into a third term, he declined. Hell, they tried to make the guy king at first.\n\nOn the complete other side of the spectrum is FDR. He became the country's first elected emperor. It is his fault that the current federal government is so huge. They have to have agencies to watch agencies now because of his liberal reforms. I admit that during the Great Depression, his reforms helped a small portion of the country, but after the War those programs should have been faded out. Instead he set the precedent for the federal government to control every aspect of our lives.
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Theodore Roosevelt's decision to run as a progressive party candidate had a major effect of splitting the Republican party vote and represents probably the only time in American History where a third party candidate has won a significant share of the vote. I think that there is a strong likelihood that if Roosevelt had not run, Taft would have won a second term.
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Washington was the better president simply because he was the first. He had no example of how he should act or conduct business. While Lincon had to deal with a split country, Washington had to run a absolutly new country that could of fallen apart at any second.
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i think Franklin Roosevelt...but im not sure
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FDR - only choosing one reason it would be how innovative he was. i think that encompasses pretty much everything he did from the brain trust to d-day.
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No, but I think he was a better president that his predecessor and his incumbent.  \n\nPushing that website, aren't you?
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who WAS the president in 1902.\n\nTeddy Roosevelt
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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I believe that FDR wins on both count.  FDR brought out the New Deal to helped to bring America out of the Depression that saw huge unemployment of the people.  FDR was also there for foreign affairs in forging a relationship with the Soviet Union and UK to find the Axis powers.
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Teddy Roosevelt \nat least he had REAL Military experience.
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Harry Truman for sure. Truman was able to follow up from where FDR left off. The world was completely different between the two times because of conflict. You should be real glad your not speaking German or Japanese right now, or even Russian. Truman did that for you, you know!!!!
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He was elected President in November 1932,\n\nFranklin D. Roosevelt \n\nAssuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and asserted in his Inaugural Address, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." \n\nBorn in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York--now a national historic site--he attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. On St. Patrick's Day, 1905, he married Eleanor Roosevelt. \n\nFollowing the example of his fifth cousin, President Theodore Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered public service through politics, but as a Democrat. He won election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920. \n\n   \n \n \n\nPresident Bush Biography\nVice President Cheney Biography\nLaura Bush Biography\nLynne Cheney Biography  \n \n  \n \n \n \nIn the summer of 1921, when he was 39, disaster hit-he was stricken with poliomyelitis. Demonstrating indomitable courage, he fought to regain the use of his legs, particularly through swimming. At the 1924 Democratic Convention he dramatically appeared on crutches to nominate Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior." In 1928 Roosevelt became Governor of New York. \n\nHe was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days," he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the unemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority. \n\nBy 1935 the Nation had achieved some measure of recovery, but businessmen and bankers were turning more and more against Roosevelt's New Deal program. They feared his experiments, were appalled because he had taken the Nation off the gold standard and allowed deficits in the budget, and disliked the concessions to labor. Roosevelt responded with a new program of reform: Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed. \n\nIn 1936 he was re-elected by a top-heavy margin. Feeling he was armed with a popular mandate, he sought legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court, which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. Roosevelt lost the Supreme Court battle, but a revolution in constitutional law took place. Thereafter the Government could legally regulate the economy. \n\nRoosevelt had pledged the United States to the "good neighbor" policy, transforming the Monroe Doctrine from a unilateral American manifesto into arrangements for mutual action against aggressors. He also sought through neutrality legislation to keep the United States out of the war in Europe, yet at the same time to strengthen nations threatened or attacked. When France fell and England came under siege in 1940, he began to send Great Britain all possible aid short of actual military involvement. \n\nWhen the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Roosevelt directed organization of the Nation's manpower and resources for global war. \n\nFeeling that the future peace of the world would depend upon relations between the United States and Russia, he devoted much thought to the planning of a United Nations, in which, he hoped, international difficulties could be settled. \n\nAs the war drew to a close, Roosevelt's health deteriorated, and on April 12, 1945, while at Warm Springs, Georgia, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
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NOT Reagan or Bush jr! \n\nModern: Clinton and Carter.\n\nRecent: Truman and FDR.\n\nOlder: Lincoln and Washington
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DeKlerk of South Africa because he had the guts to free the blacks in a white society.\n\nWinston Churchill of Great Britain because he stood strong against Nazi Germany and was the last free nation involved in WWII.\n\nFranklin Roosevelt of the USA because even with in a wheelchair he was able to guide the USA out of the Great Depression and win WWII.
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." \n- Republican President Theodore Roosevelt