As the nations longest serving president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, or FDR, was forced to tackle the monumental task of rescuing the country from the depths of the Great Depression. After enacting a wide-range of legislative initiatives to rescue the nations economy, FDR then had to combat the rise of fascism abroad, eventually dragging a reluctant, isolationist nation into the doldrums of a world war.
As the nations longest serving president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, or FDR, was forced to tackle the monumental task of rescuing the country from the depths of the Great Depression. After enacting a wide-range of legislative initiatives to rescue the nations economy, FDR then had to combat the rise of fascism abroad, eventually dragging a reluctant, isolationist nation into the doldrums of a world war.