> > And managed a world war, and pulled the US out of a depression.
> 
> If you look at a chart of the Great Depression, we started out of it but
> were heading back into it.  The war-time economy was what pulled the US 
out
> of it, not FDR's policies.
> 
> Not too long ago, I was watching a PBS documentary about one of his 
public
> works projects.  Even they mentioned that.

Not many people know - or care - that after World War I there was an 
economic depression in this country.  The government did absolutely nothing 
and within a year the economy was back up and running full speed
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