However, among voters ages 18-29, FDR scores higher for greatness than does Reagan, 62% to 55%.
The government of FDR and in all succeeding Democratic administrations has been more active than passive.
This is why FDR, when he started Social Security, it only affected widows and orphans.
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FDR's was 52% before his second midterms in 1938 when Democrats lost 71 seats.
The other year was 1940, another FDR win, this time with war under way in Europe.
The Obama Democrats are no longer the party of FDR, Truman, JFK or Clinton.
Reagan did, and that's why he, not FDR, was the best President of the 20th century.
Few animosities between U.S. presidents ran as deep as the one between Hoover and FDR.
During the 1930s, for instance, there were deep misgivings about many of FDR's antigrowth initiatives.
At the time, many businessmen challenged the programs of FDR, as they felt overtaxed and overregulated.
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Gold owners during the depression found this out when the FDR confiscated personal holdings.
FDR's secretary of labour, whose picture he rescues from obscurity and hangs behind his desk.
Many Democrats, not just the conservatives, felt differently about FDR by the late 1930s.
Unfortunately for FDR, four of the five men against whom he campaigned were re-elected.
The disorders in our modern monetary system are dramatically different from those faced by FDR.
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To be sure, like FDR, he introduced many institutional changes that strengthened the muscle of the presidency.
If one of those fails, the FDR Drive or the West Side Highway could end up underwater.
We've had three undeniably great presidents: Washington, Lincoln and FDR, one in each century of the nation's history.
This brings us to the thing that every second-term president since FDR has indeed faced: a ticking clock.
Many of FDR's economic policies, such as the National Recovery Act, depended on voluntary cooperation from big business.
And by 1939, FDR gave in to deficit hawks afraid of government spending and had to cut back.
Most often cited is FDR's victory over Hoover in 1932, which started a decades-long period of Democratic dominance.
Everyone remembers his line about fear, but what many forget was that FDR used his speech to assign blame.
The last major presidential memorial was Jefferson's, dedicated by FDR himself in 1943.
Whereas FDR ushered in fireside chats, Obama is tapping into the Twitter Firehose.
What we see is a combination of Bill Murray and FDR, which is a nice thing about the performance.
And what is true is nobody -- no President has been reelected with a rate that high since FDR.
The final print edition featured old Newsweek covers of every President since FDR and the celebrities from its heyday.
How about 142nd Street and the FDR Drive in East Harlem, a largely undeveloped area around the PAL Tennis Center?
More troubling may be why Democrats--often professed admirers of FDR and his work--have not been eager to revive these programs.
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