Was FDR considered to be a good president?

FDR is possibly the best president this country has ever had. FDR got America out of the Great Depression or at least helped it by imposing economic reforms and imposed the New Deal which got millions of Americans back into work. read more

No, Not according to me. He prolonged the great depression and changed the role of the federal government to provide welfare instead of protect. Social Security is a terrible investment and a disaster. read more

Franklin D. Roosevelt is the greatest president we have in office up to this point in time, ignoring circumstantial events that just so happened to be occurring under other presidents. FDR was the only president to serve more than one term and that has to speak to his leadership and the agreement of the people. read more

However, I believe that without World War II, FDR would have been remembered as, at best, an average president. His New Deal policies are debated to this day. Some would say, ah, a “New Deal Denier” as one reader has already accused me of. read more