Both.
1940 numbers were good enough to get FDR reelected for a THIRD term.
1941 numbers were even better.
eagleone:"You're not going to get the full scale ramp up and conversion of the US economy to a wartime economy just to provide aid to the UK and USSR."
FDR didn't need any of that to get reelected for a THIRD term in 1940.
eagleone: " Except you said unemployment was 5% in 1940.... "
No, you posted that, I said nothing of the sort.
eagleone: "I'm still trying to figure out why you're supporting one of easily the worst presidents in US history who: threatened to pack the courts massively expanded government."
First, how did a "worst" president get reelected THREE times?
Obviously many Americans then disagreed with you.
But I don't defend ANY of the New Deal or FDR's unconstitutional redesign of Federal government.
Republican Presidents Harding & Coolidge showed how to turn a depression into prosperity and that is the model Hoover & Roosevelt should have followed.
But FDR's wartime leadership was thought at the time and since then to be commendable -- it's why he kept getting reelected.
So I would not invent motives just to mock FDR, claiming he provoked war just to "cure" the Great Depression, where no evidence for such a motive exists.
No, you posted that, I said nothing of the sort.
Your exact quote...
.by the end of 1941, as the graphs clearly show, US unemployment was down around 5% and US employment was the highest ever, to date. "
10% is not "around" 5%....unless you're using blm math.
This is the second time you've said something you said you didn't say. Kinda hard to debate with one who keeps moving their position like you do.
But FDR's wartime leadership was thought at the time and since then to be commendable -- it's why he kept getting reelected.
We were only at war for ONE of his elections...1944.
I'd question his "commendable" handling of the War.
He let Stalin have his way in Europe.
If he hadn't died no telling what the Pacific would have looked like. How much of Japan would he have given the Russians?
Obama probably would have won a third term....are you going to say he was a good president??