Got re-elected three times, won WW2, and not even Reagan dared undo most of his achievements.? Best President of the last century, hands down.

The video and comments are intersting to look at considering this man will very likely come up in? my history exam soon, respect from Wales:)

"yes, the money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization, we may now restore that temple to the ancient truth" oh and by the way, turn in your gold to the several Fed Res Banks? because you wont need it anymore and we'll give you this paper money so you can help restore the "ancient truths" LOL

"we have lost the ability to pay".....it became against Public Policy to "pay" as of a certain date a person could no longer expect payment in gold? (which is true payment) but rather a discharge of obligation with Federal Reserve Notes, all that rhetoric about the moneychangers fleeing is bullshit, if anything they became further entrenched. Also notice that he didnt take the oath for "The President of the United States of America" but only as the "President of the United States"

He was a socialist. And not to mention the depression did not get? any better under him.

what and? commie!! man, herbert hoover would have been much more majorly beast for a second term. George HW Bush, Herbert Hoover and Nixon are the greatest president ever.

I agree, far and away the best ever US president. Head and shoulders above all the rest, odd that the best ever succeeded the most useless ever? (Hoover)

"we have lost the ability to pay." And indeed the world did lose its ability to pay the international banking cartel after the great depression. People need to get this point, when they? do its no longer a mystery why debt forever grows, not because of the application of interest although that is a contributor but because you have no means to pay debt, you can only offset it to someone or somewhere else. So when a politician speaks of paying down the debt hes speaking nonsense.

Read a history book, take an economics class, study human productivity, start a business and then look at this again and you will find the start of the? destruction of the greatest nation the world has ever known and ever will see. WW2 is one thing, economic strangling, depression prolonging, and the destruction of human creativity all began here. Read Atlas Shrugged. And I blast any president who blasts the Constitution as a "holdover from a horse and buggy era prevents my own social reforms"

BEST? president we've ever had, and I wasn't even alive back then! But my grandma (a hardcore Republican) was just 3 years old when the Great Depression started, she said when FDR was president, he was the best president. And for my very conservative grandma to say that is a lot!

That is because the situation is damn near the same.? Many of the problems we have today in Canada and the US are damn close to how they were all those years ago.

Even though I'm Canadian but mostly raised in the US, this is the best inaugural speech ever, especially? when he says "The only thing we have to fear is, fear itself" I find it very motivating and very emotional.

Yes, ignoramuses often make stupid comments few respect, but of course they themselves are too stupid to realize how stupid they are. ?

No idiot, downwardly rigid wages and certain other prices are what lead to nominal effects in the economy and hence recessions caused by nominal shocks. You don't know a goddamn thing, ignoramus. Has it ever? seemed strange to you that you don't hear of hourly pay being cut during economic slowdowns, instead of layoffs, idiot? lol In Germany and Singapore, laws require temporarily reduced wages rather than layoffs, so their unemployment rates barely rose during the recent worldwide downturn.

lol You don't know the first thing about the New Deal or macroeconomics, you idiot. How many New Deal programs can you even name? The fact is, the unemployment rate was about 25% when FDR took office. Less than 4 years later it was below 11%. He fed millions of people at a time when there wasn't unemployment compensation or welfare programs before he came into office. Devaluing? the dollar and the fiscal stimulus was hugely successful, though he didn't take them far enough.

Obama should've given an inaugural more? like this. Instead, we got a clueless pussy of a president.

@CSPAN the date on the caption? for the inauguration is incorrect, it's March 4, 1933

By far one the greatest presidents in history. Period. No debates, no arguments, Its crystal clear he was by far the greatest president? in 20th century.?

@MikeTorrez83 Even more business were wiped out because of FDR's policies. Those worthless jobs did not provide a safety net. Those worthless jobs destroyed productive jobs because the money was used to create those? worthless could have been used for something productive.

@Terrorizer691 None of FDR's plans worked. All they did was distort the market. It was the federal that? caused the great depression, not capitalism.

@theinsaneworld I love how your comment has no content and it has 29 thumbs up. My? comment is loaded with fact and it was thumbed down. Liberals love ad hominem and they hate logic and reasoning.

Worst President Ever He prolonged the recession by creating regulation which destroyed small businesses that could not afford that expense. He created jobs that were worthless which increased the price of everything else due to the fact that people? who? had worthless jobs were buying things that? had worth. He raised m­inimum wage which increased the prices of goods again and destroyed small business that could not afford to pay that wage. The list goes on and on and on. watch?v=Ubmjc83yAtI

I think you got Franklin Roosevelt confused with? Obama.

Just as every president should.?