"In my opinion, Reagan is the second most significant president of the Twentieth Century behind FDR."
I disagree. Reagan was the most significant president of the 20th Century for the simple reason that a lot of what he saved America from was the overtly socialist hell FDR's policies had set in motion.
FDR was a socialist. Reagan worked his pompadour off to kill FDR's "Raw Deal."
To you and me and most of the people here, Reagan's ideology is more to our liking than Roosevelt's. I was merely trying to compare the impact the different presidents had on life in the America and in the world.
I think FDR beats Reagan on both counts but Reagan beats everyone else.
Would Wendell Wilke or Alf Landon been able to rally the country to beat Germany and Japan in WWII? We will never know. But we know that FDR did it and he has to be given credit for it.
Reagan beat the Soviets in the Cold War and he WILL get credit for it. The truth of that cannot be suppressed forever.