As much as I dislike FDR, he did pull the country together. Can you imagine what would happen with a similar event today with Obama in the White House? We would all be speaking Japanese or German.
If Obama had been president in 1941, and had to make a speech on that occasion, either the first or second sentence would have included a slap at the foreign policy mess Herbert Hoover had left him with nine years ago.
Screw FDR.
He united the country behind a socialist ethos. Our country changed for the worse under his leadership.
He was a Commie bastard.