What is the importance and legacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in american History? A political Genius!?
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Actually, no. A lot of the reforms he tried to implement by executive order were declared a few years after they were decreed as un constitutional by the US Supreme Court. Most of the programs did work, and they were only meant to work in the short term to get the economy rolling again. Some of the things he decreed were wage and price controls, minimum wage, right to organize labor unions, etc. All the things that were implemented to help the working man.
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I think he will be remembered overall as the least popular President in the history of the United States, His legacy will also be one of causing Islamic extremism and hatred of the US to drastically increase, while at the same time destabilizing the middle east. He will also be remembered for helping to turn a budget surplus into a record deficit, encouraging industry to send jobs oversees, etc. History will not remember this man kindly.
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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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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Yes and if there were more men like Teddy Roosevelt I would be Republican. During his term Roosevelt aquired more federal land for National Parks and Monuments then any president in history. He is the sole reason for Yellow Stone National Park. The true conservative is a wonderful person, in my eyes. They place a high value on schooling and the national budget. What we have now, and for a long time, is the party of the Neo Con(victs). It has been around since Nixon and will continue to be that way until we as Americans demand more from our elected officals.
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"Big Stick" diplomacy and intimidation. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Roosevelt\n\nEnjoy,\nArmus
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An assassin shoots Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee. A thick coat and documents he was carrying save his life\n\nEdgar Rice Burroughs publishes Tarzan of the Apes.\n\nChina becomes a republic, after centuries of rule by an Emperor\n\nFirst ever parachute jump from an airplane\n\nThe size of the U.S. flag is set by presidential order.\n\nThe first homerun hit at Fenway Park (Hugh Bradley, Red Sox) \n\nWoodrow Wilson is elected U.S. President, beating challenger Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent William Howard Taft.
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I'm still chuckling at liv2play106's answer -- brilliant!\n\nWithout overthinking this question too much, I'd invite Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill and John Lennon. \n\nJefferson was the most impressive intellectual figure of his time (though there were several others worth mentioning) and remains to this day my political idol. While hosting a White House dinner for a group of Nobel laureates, JFK famously referred to the gathering as "the most extraordinary collection of talent and human knowledge that has ever been gathered at the White House -- with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."\n\nChurchill was a brilliant, thoughtful and eloquent man whose ability to inspire and lead the people of Great Britain during the darkest hours of WWII can best be described as sublime. He also happens to be one of the greatest writers and orators, political or otherwise, this world has ever known. Like Jefferson, a towering intellect.\n\nLennon, one of the greatest musicians and songwriters of all time, would be invited to represent someone more or less contemporary and to add some much-needed levity to the occasion. Besides, if we were all very lucky, he might just favour us with a song. Nice. :)
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Is he very "ethnic" or is he thoroughly Americanized with no real racial heritage identity? If the latter then I (speaking as someone from a minority background but who identifies his heritage as the the legacy of George Washington, Teddy Roosevelt and the American GI), then let me tell you that race doesn't matter.
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Here's a statistic to blow your mind. The Great Depression caused 1 out of every 3 Americans to be unemployed. Only with Roosevelt's plan of giving them government project work did America rise back up as a renewed superpower.
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Important good or important bad?  Let's go for one of each:\n\nImportant bad changes were wrought by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the father of the beaurocracy.  He use the excuse of recovery from the great depression to create an alphabet soup of government programs, all funded by taxpayers, which were supposedly combating poverty.  It is true that a lot of unemployed people got jobs with the government, and as a temporary measure it might not have been all that bad.  Such things are alway vulnerable to favoritism and various forms of corruption, of course, but at least people who had been hungry started bringing home a paycheck.  But those programs, and the precedent they set, are mostly still in place, getting larger and more expensive and less effective all the time, and the taxpayers are paying for it all.\n\nTherefore, the president who made the most valuable changes, or at least tried to, or pehaps started to, was Ronald Reagan.  He vowed to disassemble the beaurocracy, reduce taxes, and deregulate industry.  He did his best, but the job was too big for him.  However, he was largely instrumental in the downfall of the Soviet Union, mostly by scaring them into spending so much more than they could afford on their military.  The Soviet Union, as a communist country, was strangled by its beaurocracy.  It was therefore enormously inefficient.  The money it spent on the military, and on the space program once Reagan warned them that space programs had an obvious military purpose, was more than it could afford, and it went belly-up.  Also, you may recall that there were a group of hostages which the Democrats did not have what it took to get released, who were handed over when the kidnappers realized Ronald Reagan was indeed being sworn in as president.  They did not want to deal with him, because he had guts, and gave back the hostages.
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It's between Lincoln and FDR because they led the country through its greatest crises and never backed down. A great president is measured through how he leads in tough times because tough times don't last, tough people do. Being a knowledgeable, strong commander in chief, and knowing how to manage spending by the government are also included. There are many debates about who is the greatest and most times your just choosing the lesser of two evils. These two are the obvious choices when you look at history. I would love to put JFK in here but the fact is he was taken from the people before he could fulfill his dream. You could argue the failures of Lincoln and Roosevelt as well but no one goes through this lifetime w/o failing. For the great ones, failure is why they succeed.
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let's see, in 1000 words or less:\n\nJefferson was an architect of our "constitutional republic" and Hamilton was the architect of our economic system. Each of our founding fathers have had various roles in forging the baseline of who and what America is today. Washington was the 'action hero' who led America's armies and then the government out of it's conception (and then dared to turn over power peacefully! Unheard of!) and created precedence for how power is to be handled. Franklin, the man who embodied the ideals of personal drive and creativity and how success can be achieved in our society. You really need to read all about these people and what they did... you just can't type it out here...
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It's a toss-up between three:  FDR, Washington, and Lincoln.\nFDR, because even though he did things that nowadays would have everyone screaming "IMPEACH!" he led our country effectively out of the Great Depression, and his leadership during WWII was extraordinary.  Also, his "fireside chats" are legendary, and they were a huge comfort to those who lived in those tumultuous times.  The things he did "wrong" e.g. "allowing" the attack on Pearl Harbor, and putting the Japanese into concentration camps, are mostly forgotten in light of his accomplishments.\nWashington, for obvious reasons stated by other answerers.  Even though he was a slave owner.\nLincoln, because he MADE the country unite on a sensitive issue...even though it's what caused the civil war.  We turned out the better for it though, didn't we?\nI think all three of them would be rolling over in their graves if they could see what the American people have become.  They were proud patriots, who loved this country.  I'm just glad they weren't criticized for their shortcomings like our current president is for his.  If they were, the country would have fallen apart, or slavery would still be legal, or we would all be speaking German and bowing down before statues of Hitler.  Or all three.
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The site below gives you all the details you want and probably more.  =)  Check it out.  It's clearly written and very through.\n\nTheodore Roosevelt (26th President of the U.S.)\n Presidency 1901-1909 and what he did in office:\n5.1 Anthracite coal strike of 1902 \n5.2 Square Deal \n5.3 Regulation of industry \n5.4 Conservationist \n5.5 Foreign policy \n5.5.1 Panama Canal \n5.6 Life in White House \n5.7 Presidential firsts \n5.8 Supreme Court appointments \n5.9 States admitted to the Union
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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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Often credited with being the first  "modern president". Rough Riders. Panama Canal. Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the war between Russia and Japan. One of America's greatest presidents.