How intelligent was FDR?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, after his meeting with FDR, famously declared that FDR had “a second class intellect, but a first class temperament”. read more

So, yes, FDR was an extremely intelligent, accomplished, and highly knowledgeable man. What Justice Holmes was driving at was that FDR was not an intellectual, not a profound thinker, not someone even remotely interested in reading and mastering weighty philosophical tomes or in wrestling with difficult theoretical concepts. read more

A biography published by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia concludes, "Faced with the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt guided America through its greatest domestic crisis with the exception of the Civil War, and its greatest foreign crisis. read more

Until the Pearl Harbor attack, all of FDR’s efforts to win the U.S. public’s support for going to war against Hitler had failed miserably, and time was rapidly running out to turn the war’s tide away from Hitler and global dictatorship, and toward Churchill and a possible world future of democracy (the latter being the world future which has made our lives as good as they are, not the hell that Hitler had intended them to be). read more

What a High Emotional Intelligence Looks Like By Dr. Travis Bradberry When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933, he recognized that emotional recovery must precede economic recovery. read more