Steven H
He and Lincoln have both been rated number one but if you cant share the number one spot, yes he would be number two. His policies took us out of the great depression. He led the country during WWII a bad time in our history.

nut house
ya he was pretty good got us out of the depression and i lived by the roosevelt mall in northeast philly ya right by wilson jr high ok babe

Answerman
I think he took two very difficult times and made the best of them and addressed the problems of his times real well. The great depression, and W. W. l l. I think next to Lincoln he was probably the best president in all of history.

Johnny L
Roosevelt's policy helped to take us from the great depression and set up many of the great programs today. Including Social Security and other programs. He also helped to win WW2 with his leadership skills.

180 changes
Personally, I do not honor the man. Why would I honor the man who did more to socialize our country than any other man before or since?

Louella R
my parents lived through that era so they told me plenty. in 1929 the stock market crashed and thus the depression when FDR took over the country was ready to go either Communist or Nazi as both groups had a lot of card carrying members in the United States. The German American Bund (Nazi's) had over 100,000 card carrying members but some say there was over a million German American who were Nazis the Communist had about the same number. Well through the power and charisma of FDR and his wife Eleanor he implemented a lot of government programs that helped jump start our sick economy (12 million unemployed_) But what really got the US out of the depression was the start of WWII and the country was shifted to a war time economy Bullets over Butter...Then there was no unemployment as so many men were in the service and for many years after the war ended in 1945 the US supplied the world with a lot of food and manufactured goods. FDR helped America by getting rid of Prohibiton...allowing Americans to drink..that was a good one..plus he set up Social Security..and i just got my first check of $1500.00 this mounth..thank you very much FDR and a lot of other programs that the Supreme Court voted down..so over all during his Four elections to the white house...his rating is valid...and he did all this while suffering from polio..a cripple He was not perfect but he was a man who got things done.

patriot07
i think he was our BEST president. guiding america through the depression and then the second world war is no less than spectacular!

Jarod R
It was accually WW2 that got us out of the great depression. He was just the current persident. He took out either the Silver or the Gold from our money. That is part of the reason for inflation. I do not look upon him as highly as some other people might.

Matt
One thing that I think was pretty amazing about that guy is he was elected to 4 terms...people had to actually amend the constitution with term limits so that one person did not remain in power so long...to cause the constitution of this country to be amended is pretty special

dsl67
I think his strong leadership during WWII is about the only thing he did well. His policies really didn't help end the great depression, in fact in the crash of 1937 helped extend the depression another few years until the military build up of WWII ended it. He ordered approx. 130,000 American citizens put into concentration camps simply because of their ethnic background. He appointed a Ku Klux Klan member to the supreme court, after trying to grab additional power with a court packing scheme. He gave us Social Security which basically steals money from the people and gives them back less than they contributed upon their retirement.