[RLK]

As to FDR giving the people "hope," many other unsavory characters in history can also make that claim.

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I never made the statement that I liked or agreed with FDR.

[Captain Kirk]

I'm sorry if I implied otherwise. Thank you for the correction. Part of the reason I jumped on the statement is that the "hope" argument is one of the last defenses of those who do like FDR as if that somehow mitigated the disasterous failures of his economic policy. Also, of course, the "World War II got us out of the depression" is often used by those who argue that Keynesian spending did in fact work.