A Perspective on FDR

SEE HERE I was too little to really remember FDR. He died when I was about three. But I did have a number of teachers in high-school who loathed him and often claimed that he had maneuvered us into World War II. I also have found over the years, lots of evidence that FDR's policies to battle the great depression are more the reason for the great depression than its cure. Don't bother saying any of that to a liberal however, unless you like to hear them rant and see them froth at the mouth. FDR is one of their heroes. So it is certainly disconcerting to have Newt Gingrich praising FDR. I don't know any conservatives that praise FDR so maybe Newt's on the wrong wavelength.