TheGreatGatsby
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FDR
He introduced more crap that we carry around to this day, that just doesn't work.
he confiscated peoples gold
couldn't get us out of the depression w/o war
got us involved in WW2
served 3 terms, breaking tradition, "for our own good".
Every American death in WW2 is on him.
Wilson and JFK
FDR ran for the 4th term even though he knew it was likely he would die during it. That's how much the man hungered for power and control.
He cut his former very liberal VP Harry Wallace from the ticket, in favor of the moderate, Harry Truman, a man who he detested.
There was a great chance that he would have lost the 1944 election without Truman. Truman had headed the Truman Committee that had cut $15 billion and saved thousands of lives for the war effort. He was seen as a man that countered FDR's waste and were it not for Truman being on the ticket, it was likely that FDR would have lost that election.
FDR was that worried about his legacy and retaining power and having his pulse on the affairs of the nation that he was willing sacrifice his real choice to be his successor in favor of a man he severely disliked and distrusted.