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Birth: January 30, 1882 Death: April 12, 1945 Political Party: Democrat Terms of Office: 1. 1933-1937 2. 1937-1941 3. 1941-1945 4. 1945-1945  Vice Presidents: 1. John Nance Garner (1933-1941) 2. Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945) 3. Harold Truman (1945)
 * President Franklin Delano Roosevelt **

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the third ranked president of the United States. He also served for the longest amount of time, which shows that he was very popular with the people of the time. In addition to leading the United States through World War II, which was a very tough job that Roosevelt handled successfully, Roosevelt helped to get the country of the worst depression it had ever been through. Because of his presidential success and popularity among the people I give Roosevelt an A+ for his presidency.

When Roosevelt entered into the presidency for his first term, he inherited the worst economic depression in United States history. His primary goal, as stated in his first inaugural address was to put people to work. His ultimate goal throughout his first term in presidency was to get the country out of the depression. He succeeded in doing this through his all encompassing New Deal. This was an amazing feat that helped out many American by creating programs that opened up millions of job opportunities, providing emergency relief for the poor, helped to get banks back on their feet and restore public confidence in them, as they were on the brink of failure, and many, many more pieces to restore the country to former success. Once the nation was able to rebound greatly, Roosevelt's goals for his second term were to continue to practice his New Deal Policies in order to further help the country to grow and fully exit the depression era. Soon after the country returned to its former glory, WWII flared up in Europe and America entered on the side of the Allies. Roosevelt's new goal was obvious, to win the war against the Axis Powers, especially including Germany. In total, President Roosevelt was extremely successful in fulfilling his goals which is why he was so loved by the people, he was able to give them what they wanted.

President Roosevelt had a great relationship with the Congress (which was made up of mostly Democrats) and immediately met to talk about the almost failing banking system. They were able to quickly push through the new Emergency Banking Relief Act after closing all of the banks for a bank holiday while Congress figured out what to do to help the banks. After this quick Act was pushed through, they continued to work well together in order to pass many policies and government programs that would quickly stimulate the economy and help Americans. The New Deal was made up of a large number of deals, programs, and laws that Congressed worked alongside Roosevelt to come up with. The fact that this many bills were passed by Congress showed that they were able to work well together. After the New Deal was created and stability was maintained in America, Roosevelt and Congress were able to continue to work well together especially during WWII when war was easily declared on Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Also, a lot of other legislation was passed to help push America through the war. Overall, Franklin Roosevelt vetoed 1% of the legislation presented by Congress which is an impressive figure considering the times and length of his presidency.

Although Roosevelt accomplished many things with positive outcomes, his accomplishment with the most positive outcome was by far his New Deal and the policies that were included in it. During his first 100 days of presidency Roosevelt was able, through his New Deal policies, to; pass bank reforms that restored a measure of public confidence in banks, create millions of jobs through the creation of government funded projects, help farmers through the government storing of the farmers surplus until it was able to be sold, Federal emergency relief for the poor, create the Securities and Exchange committee which was able to regulate the stock exchange, and other smaller pieces of legislation. Not only did these policies lead to the stability of the nation, they also led to Social Security which is one of the most successful programs still around today and other programs and policies. Roosevelt's administration's action that had the most negative consequence was the creation of the National Recovery Administration (NRA). The administration had good intentions because they wanted to improve wages and conditions for workers, but they suspended the anti-trust laws and made price fixing legal again for the large corporations. In turn the corporations began to price-fix smaller company's out of the market and consumer prices went up markedly. This was very bad for everyone except for the big businesses. It was especially bad for the small businesses and in 1935, the Supreme Court ruled the administration unconstitutional and it was ended.

There were many important decisions that affected future generations during Roosevelt's presidency but the most important was the Constitutional Amendment that restricted future presidents to two terms. This impacted all of the future presidencies because it kept future presidents from being president for more than two terms. It also helped to protect the United States in future generations from monarchies through one man becoming the leader for extended periods of time.

The country was by far better off after Roosevelt's presidency because of him bringing the nation out of the depression and guiding it through the war. When he became president, the unemployment rates were unbelievably high and the country was on the edge. Roosevelt restored the country to stability and made it much better. Because of everything that he did, it is fairly obvious that Roosevelt deserves an A for his presidency.

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