Franklin+Delano+Roosevelt



January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945 Number of Terms: 4
 * F**ranklin **D**elano **R**oosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an overall extremely successful President. During the 20th century, he had served 4 terms, beating Lindbergh out of office on his fourth run. FDR, as some referred to him as, was the President who handeled a national crisis, also known as the Great Depression, and the majority of World War II very nobly (V.P. Truman took office and dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to finally end World War II.) In the Plot Against America though, Roosevelt lost to Charles Lindbergh, hero of the skies as he became the only one to have made the trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris in that time in his attempts for a third term. We were on the verge of World War, with Adolf Hitler's rise to power with the help of his Nazi thugs and Emperor Hirohito of Japan's imperialistic views to expand and take natrual resource-rich Chinese land. America had become and increasingly "isolationist" nation, or a nation that keeps to itself and out of others' business. Roosevelts campaign though had seemed to be going against this flow of society. He was re-arming the military in order to "prepare for the worst, hope for the best" fashion. This is when Lindbergh hit him where it hurt, slapping his own campaign with the slogan "Vote for Lindbergh or Vote for War". Incredibly, this crushed Roosevelts only hopes of winning the third term as United States President. Roosevelt was a kind, loving man who showed absolutely no sign of racism. FDR suffered from polio in his forties, so he deeply sympathized the cripple. Lindbergh on the other hand was a fascist whom had connections with Hitler and Hirohito of Japan, and blamed the Jewish people of America for the economic crisis. Roosevelt would not have even begun to suspect such foolishness, seeing as the Jewish people were in America because they belong in a free country. This was no matter during the time, since Roosevelt was no isolationist. Roosevelt, as we can see since he was re-elected over his opponents, was an excellent president, seeing as how the war upped the country out of its economic downfall through many viewpoints. In all, if he would have actually fallen to Lindbergh, who knows where or what we as a country would be.