[7thson]

The answer to the main question - NO!

[Types_with_Fist]

Just my two cents. I don't want to slam FDR, as many here DO regard him highly. Every other issue aside, I would rank Reagan ahead simply because he ended the Cold War, which FDR did his best to help the Soviet Union begin.

[DreadCthulhu]

The best thing I can say about FDR is that he kept even more radical figures from getting power during the dark days of the depression.

Of course, that is like saying a mugger isn't that bad because he only robbed you, and didn't kill you.

[Geezerette]

I second that "NO!"

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[RightWhale]

Yes, he was a good President. Mainly, he acted Presidential and sounded Presidential. Granted, he pulled some bonehead socialist and political stunts, but all Presidents do something that makes them look like ordinary people from time to time. In his day he rallied the people to save America, which was not in actual imminent danger of destruction but still in some trouble, and so was in the spirit of Lincoln before and Reagan after.

One of the greats? Sort of, but more because of circumstance.

[WestTexasWend]

FDR put this country on the road to hell.
LBJ removed the speed limit and closed the off-ramps.