So /his/ was he a good president?
He saved us from those self-correcting classical economists. So yes
>>917326
He assuredly extended the Great Depression, so no.
>>917396
How? not doubting you or anything just curious.
>>917442
His policies caused a depression within the depression, then kangarooed off of turning the US government into a wartime fascist industry, and getting into WW2.
He also tried to turn his presidency into a dictatorship multiple times.
This fucker is on my shitlist.
1. FDR
2. LBJ
3. WILSHIT
4. REGAN
5. H.W. BUSH
6. TRUMAN
7. Little Bush
8. King nigger
9. JQA
10. Huey Long
>>917326
Literally put an entire ethnic group into camps and liberals still like him, I don't know how he does it.
>>917396
>>917545
>He assuredly extended the Great Depression, so no.
I realise you're a libertarian and thus are probably beyond reason, but the overwhelming majority of economists credit FRD with brining the US out of the depression or at very least accelerating its recovery.
>>917547
Exactly. Japfag here, and hate this dude and Truman forever
>>917568
I'm Italian, we best allies, r-right?
>>917564
Kill yourself./
It's because of communists like that america isnt' free anymore.
>>917326
He's been shit so far, fucked up the NBN, plans to defund all public schools.
Fuck I hate Turnbull even worse he's going to win based on charisma alone.
>>917545
What's your problem with JQA?
>>917604
Kek
He was a liberal and thus ultimately destructive. Not to mention he was a borderline communist.
I think he was a great man for the wrong reasons. Nigga had polio but still walked before the nation, balls of fucking steel. But I can't stand the policies and politics he created. He created the MIC and pretty much everything liberals bitch about but blame conservatives for.
>>917604
Had the same thought m8
>>917545
>6. TRUMAN
faggot
>>917326
>Good President
During the War, yes. Before 1942, he only knew how to sway a public and use propaganda to give the "image" of helping.
His secretary of treasury, a one Henry Morgenthau Jr (I think I fudged his name) put it best "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises… I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started… And an enormous debt to boot!."
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Schlae (Sorry for not posting the direct source quote from the US Treasury letters in May 1939 but this book has the source and quote)
>>917599
Sometimes effective macroeconomic policies don't match up with your pet ideology, if you can accept that's okay you'll be a happier person tb.h
>>917804
>kickstarted the cold war
>incompetent at Korea
>>917545
>no eisenhower
what the fuck, the only good thing he did was starting the space race.
>>917840
kill yourself, eisenhower was one of the greatest presidents
>>917846
>coup in iran
>>917396
Oh god, I thought that only russian libertarians may come up with something as stupid.
It's weird how TV propaganda has told people Nixon was the worst president ever almost as bad as Hitler for about 40 years, but pretty much nobody has that view anymore.
>>917599
>americans who don't know what rule under actual communists is like complain about minor socialsim
stop bitching, bitch
>>917915
Nixon would be considered a lefty in today's politics
>>917326
He both countered European Imperialism - as he did in the M.E. and India - and sponsored it - in East Asia and southern Africa. We wouldn't have had the War on Indochina or apartheid for so long if it weren't for FDR. So there was room for improvement there.
But saying that, domestically he did a lot of good. His socialist-ish policies saved the USA's economy (and Europe's by extension) and don't you forget it.
Also, I feel this has been overlooked, he *did* manipulate the American public into joining the Allied cause. And that was a momentously good thing. The fight against fascism would have been nigh-on impossible to win without US involvement.
>>918144
Richard "Let's drop a bomb on those Gooks" Nixon.
Yeah, sure, whatever. The creation of the EPA is somewhat overshadowed by everything else he did.
>>918163
>Saved the economy
I assume you can explain why the economy didn't fully recover until he had died, and there was an entire mini-depression during his presidency?
>>918231
Which policies ended the Great Depression?
