Quote:Buchanan did significant damage to the nation.

 

And FDR was in no way a Top 5 President.  The man tried to stuff the supreme court, and ordered the internment of Japanese Americans.

 

Did he order secret torture or CIA spying on the entire nation?

 

Yes, I know about his idea to change the makeup of the supreme court and make all the old guys collectively have a single vote. It was a novel idea that got the judicial branch to finally get out of the way.

 

Also I know the internment camps for Japanese weren't great, but I'd say it was better than what the Japanese were doing to American POWs or the Germans were doing to the Jews they got their hands on.

 

FDR led the nation back from a prior administration that had crashed the economy in true republican style and brought the free world back from the brink of German/Japanese domination.

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