Why Is Franklin D Roosevelt A Good President

The role of the President of the United States is supremely overwhelming. Many have come and gone with their own take on the job, and some have been liked by the general populace more than others. In my opinion, one of (if not) the best presidents was Franklin D. Roosevelt. He entered the office during the Great Depression and stayed throughout the second World War. His actions and decisions have changed the United States for the better good, and without him we could potentially have been in the Great Depression for many more years, not to mention that we could have been in a much worse state due to World War II.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York in 1882, and after years of prestigious schooling (including the likes of Harvard) he worked as an apprentice lawyer at a New York law firm. After doing that for three years, he moved on to politics; promptly being elected as a democratic New York State Senator. In his time in the Senate, he supported one of the then presidential hopefuls, Woodrow Wilson. After Wilson won the race he “. . . appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1913.” …show more content…
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941 and the German and Italian declarations of war against the United States of America, Roosevelt and the Americans officially entered a state of war. After seeing the results of Germany’s invasion of other European countries and the attacks the Italian and Japanese made, he helped create a new world alliance called the “United Nations” with, initially, twenty-two states ("UN|DPI — OD|Dag Hammarskjöld Library: Member States|On the Record."). Sadly, in 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed away largely due to health problems suffered due to the stresses and pressures of the second World War which was still rampant at the time of his