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Franklin Delano Roosevelt 32nd President of the United States Born: January 30, 1882 Died: April 12, 1945 Terms: 1933-1945 Political Party: Democrat Vice Presidents: John N. Garner (1933-1941), Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945), and Harold Truman (1945)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (“FDR”), was, in common opinion, one of the most influential, nationalistic, hard working, and greatest presidents in the history of the United States. With the help of Congress, Roosevelt was able to exceedingly repair the nation from the biggest economic crisis in American history, the Great Depression. Also, the break out of World War II, proved that Roosevelt was keeping the wellbeing of the United States in heart, further supporting his stance of, “The only thing to fear, is fear itself.” For all these reasons and some, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is well deserving of an A+.

After succeeding Herbert Hoover, Roosevelt inherited the worst economic crisis that the United States has ever faced. To overcome this, his main goal was to repair the nation from the Great Depression step by step, through out his presidency. Immediately, Roosevelt met with Congress to begin repair the nation. In the first hundred day Roosevelt and Congress passed a significant amount of acts that had regulated the economic issues and created agencies to help do so. These became known as New Deals, which followed the process of the Three R’s, relief, recovery, and reform. Another goal of Roosevelt was to fix the amount unemployment in the nation. Because of the Great Depression, many Americans were left jobless due to the number of industries that had failed due to the economic crash. When, entering his second term Roosevelt continued to encourage the New Deal policy. However, when World War II broke out, the goals changed to strictly winning the war.

To repair the nation of the Great Depression, Roosevelt and Congressed worked together to pass legislation such as the Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933. This allowed Roosevelt, and future presidents, to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange to reopen solvent banks. Another way Roosevelt and Congress had tried to fix the economy was by creating jobs. One way they did this was by creating the Civilian Conservation Corps. This gave employment in fresh air government camps for about three million uniformed young men. Not only had this significantly depleted the number of the unemployed, but it had also prevented crime, conserved nature, and gave civil jobs to protect the wellbeing of the nation.

Roosevelt had a great relationship with his Congress of mostly democrats. Together they were able to greatly repair the nation’s economic problem, but also declare war on Japan for the destruction of Pearl Harbor, which had also worked out for the interest of the United States and allied countries.

The only negative action of Roosevelt was the Executive Order 9066. This began the Japanese Internment Camps after Pearl Harbor, resulting in pulling 120,000 Japanese-Americans out of the workforce and into what could be considered concentration camps. However, this was to protect the American people from possible internal harm.

Regarding future presidents, Roosevelt was the reason as to why presidents today can only serve two consecutive four year terms. By passing the 22nd Amendment in 1951, presidents were now limited on the number of years to be served consecutively in office. Also it regulated the amount of power the president could have on the nation to ensure no abuse of power.

In conclusion, there is no doubt that Roosevelt is not an A+ president. For being able to completely fix the worst economic crisis in American history and be able to win a war that was basically forced upon the United States, there in no argument to support a grade lower than an A+.

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