I was wrong about FDR holding 600 press conferences.

[longship]

31. Maybe you are not aware of precisely what FDR did.

I love Churchill's history of WWII. It's six freaking thick volumes spanning from Hitler's climb to power until the end of the war. The story told there is full of FDR, with many of Churchill's correspondences with FDR reproduced. The story told in those pages is astounding. The world was coming apart like none of us here have ever seen. It took people like FDR, and Churchill, and others to put an end to world war.

The 1933 and 1936 elections were no fluke. After all, FDR became the only US president elected four times. People who grew up then adored him... For good reason.

Still, his opposition was tough. It took Pearl Harbor before he could get the US to commit to casting off isolationism, but then it was too late, we weren't just supporting our allies, we were at war ourselves.

Sheesh!