10 Myths About FDR and The Great Depression

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FDR and Family During Yellowstone National Park Visit (Ca. 1937)

Photo by Montana State University Library

3. FDR was a Compassionate Man

Liberals celebrate Franklin Roosevelt as a heroic, noble, and compassionate president. Some consider him to be the greatest president of the 20th century. But the truth is the Franklin Roosevelt was a racist man who unconstitutionally interned over half a million Japanese-Americans without due process. This included women and children. Entire families were round up and locked up in military camps, which sounds eerily like what another well-known leader of a World War II nation did. FDR also recklessly expanded federal power and the power of the executive branch. He pushed to redefine the government in ways never envisioned by the founding fathers and in doing so eroded the very document he had sworn uphold and protect: The US Constitution.

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