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-**John N. Garner (1933-1941) -Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945) ||
 * [[image:FDRoosevelt2.jpg caption="http://awesomeamerica.com/washingtondc/FDRoosevelt2.jpg"]] || Franklin Delano Roosevelt
 * Born:** January 30, 1882
 * Birthplace:** Hyde Park, New York
 * Died:** April 12, 1945
 * Political Party:** Democratic
 * In Office:** March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945
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 * President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a highly sturdy man that was brought to the presidency for the sheer power of his actions and his ability to find what is going wrong and solve it. During his presidency he recieved many hardships, but through his effective leadership he prevailed through the remainder of the Great Depression as well as the majority of the problematic Second World War. His leadership of the American country wasn't without falts, but moving beyond those faults, the grade of an A is deserving of this president.

Roosevelt's platform for his presidency on the Democratic ticket was the "New Deal" reforms that he promised America. They, in turn, were meant to turn around and stamp out the problem of the Great Depression that was badly hurting the nation's economical development into a world power and role model for the world that it was intended to be. In his actions, he did threaten America's economical balance even greater when he took it off the gold standard, but many of his other acts were more powerful in a positive light. His alphabet soup policies kept the nation away from self destruction with acts such as the Tennesee Valley Authority, which led te nation through the revolutionary abilities to help nature and also to stop the overgorwn companies from bullying the poor. The Social Security Administration, which helped out the elderly in times of monetary crisis when they no longer worked. The Federal Housing Administration both gave shelter as well as an easy way to afford living expenses with their ideas on cheap housing. In FDR's "New Deal" policies, he managed to bring about a start to the end of the Great Deprssion that had plauged our Nation for much too long of a time. FDR was ultimately successful in his intention to bring the Nation out of the Depression, although it may not have been war that he expected to have made it possible.

FDR's relationship with his congress was much better towards the start of his presidency than towards the the beginning of the war. In his "New Deal" policies the President was able to pass the majority of the acts through a majority democratic congress. In this sense he contained very little disputes over congress on how to handle America's situation as it was up to him with little discrepency on part of the Congress. Although he managed problems in his relations with the Judicial Branch of government, even going so far as to appoint more supreme court justices, he still helped to bring about his acts and administrations to the people of America. Although less of his acts were accepted by congress towards the beginning of the war, as seen wth the inability to stop the Bonus Bill passed by Huey Long, he still managed a relatively successful relationship with Congress.

Fdr's best policies, or best set of policies, were in his ability to combat the Great Depression. His Alphabet Soup Policies were some of the wisest actions that a president had ever taken to combat the battle against a failing economy. His actions in the alphabet soup led America to being revived in a glorious manner in World War Two. WWII would not have been successful had the American people not already been exposed to the changes in the economy. Had America still been poor and distraught, not only would the moral of the people have been low, but their ability to be recognized as a force of power would have been dashed against the bricks of the attack on Pearl Harbor. America was able to bring itself back to life, rejuvinated in a sense, of full out nationalism and happiness to be an American once again due to the policies laid out in groundwork for the end of the Great Depression.

In Roosevelt's presidency, many of his actions were straightforward with controversy as well as questionable motives. In the end, although the actions may have not been a nessesarily bad invitation to disaster, taking the Nation off of the Gold Standard is one of the worst policies that Roosevelt led the nation through. In his actions against the gold standard, he hoped to create a high inflationary spiral that would allow the Americans to walk upwards back into a time of economic delight. However, in this sense, not only did the policy fail, it also gave America a deep scare of the value of their money. The ability of a president was shown to be too greatly powered, that even the slightest action could alter the balance of America and crush it beneath it's own disaster. The president was in an attempt that had failed many times before him and as such led America down the road of unstable money again.

FDR's presidency was shown to be laid out with much independence and originality as his ideas were meant to combat a problem that hadn't occured in America to the extent that it did during the Great Depression as well as through the second world war. FDR's lasting legacy truthfully showed other presidents that in order to make the Country better, one has to achieve betterment by taking action and not slothing around in the mud of no-action. FDR also left a lasting impression upon the majority of the world with his ability to tie it together as one and keep everyone united. In his plans, he hoped to bring the world together in a new world order, the United Nations are a result of the idea. In this, the world was able to see that America was not dense and hard headed, they wanted what everone really hoped for in the end, a solution to fix the problems.

FDR managed to pull through his presidency by sheer force of his will to do the Nation better. The Nation, in turn, responded with a fruitful new selection of individuals that could happily call themselves Americans once more. America was better off in retrospect of his presidency due to the ability to pull the Nation to a more uniform and "united" stance to their own prosperity. The Great Depression as well as the Majority of the Second World War were both eliminated as well as successful, respectively, due to his ability to lead as President. It is for these reasons that Franklin Delano Roosevelt deserves an A for his presidency. || [] [] ||
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