[niteowl77]

There is a reason why my grandmother, a good New York City Irish catholic despised the man.

As did my maternal grandfather. Grandpa reacted to FDR much as I do to BHO, and with many of the same naughty words.

Tradition!

Mr. niteowl77

[River Hawk]

My maternal grandfather was a New Deal Democrat who actually met FDR on gov’t business, and my grandfather became disenchanted with the whole thing and started voted Republican.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I knew a very nice old woman at my first real professional job - she was a secretary there - who obviously adored FDR. She said, and I remember this 20 years on, “he cared for the working man”. Amazing how they fall for that claptrap. The man was an arrogant overprivileged haughty phony.

[MisterArtery]

My Grandmother, whose only two sons were mentally and physically scarred by WWII, danced (literally) in the street in front of her house when she learned that FDR had croaked. She was a very fundamentalist Christian and thought dancing would send you to hell, but took a chance.