Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Influence as president Some have called him the best president yet. Others have even claimed that he was the world's most influential and successful leader of the twentieth century. Those claims can be backed up by the overwhelming support that he received from his citizens throughout his four terms in office. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt began a new era in American history by ending the Great Depression that the country had …showed first 75 words of 3591 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3591 total…powers and thinking. Without Roosevelt as one of the nation’s president’s, This country would have taken a far longer road to recover than the straight one that lied ahead with Roosevelt in office. Bibliography Resources: William Slovzuch, F.D.R.; In his times, New York, Bantam Printing, 1985 Nathan Thompson, Our Great presidents, Boston, Little Brown, 1995 David Creaston, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New York, Holiday House, 1992 www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/fr32.html