Commentary There has been a good deal of focus lately on the alleged emulation of Franklin D. Roosevelt by current president Joe Biden. It is not hard to believe that Biden’s family were Roosevelt supporters. They lived in the coal and steel city of Scranton, Pennsylvania which was hard-hit in the early days of the depression and well served by President Roosevelt’s economic recovery programs and his extension of Social Security and unemployment benefits to American workers. Roosevelt’s war leadership was respected by practically everyone and the results were practically an unbroken string of American and allied victories from the Battle of the Coral Sea five months after the attack on Pearl Harbor all the way to the dropping of the atomic bombs, four months after FDR’s death. It would be gratuitous to dwell upon the cavernous differences between their levels of worldliness, eloquence, taste and style, and accomplishment. Roosevelt’s …
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