Sequoyah wrote:
“FDR was pretty much just a socialist political hack but the Greatest and Silent Generations idolized him.”
My dad didn’t idolize FDR either, reason being, he (FDR) knew beforehand that the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming, & didn’t do anything about it.
FDR knew war was inevitable one way or the other. His "Arsenal of Democracy" speech was for all intents and purposes, a declaration of war on the Axis Powers.