[Allan]

For 70 years there has been a holy creed--
spread by academia until accepted by media
and most Americans--
that Franklin D. Roosevelt cured the Great Depression.

Is that true?
I was born in 1940
and I never have met a single person
who lived through the depression
who thought that FDR ended it.

Most people seem to think WWII did it.

[Mears]

Same here,and I'm a few years older than you. I always thought it was the war.

[Kay Ludlow]

I was born in 1940 and I never have met a single person who lived through the depression who thought that FDR ended it.

I was just talking to my 80 year old aunt (born 1923) this week. My husband made some disparaging remark about FDR, and she leaped to his defense, saying that "there's a lot of us that would've starved without him". I told her that many people now believe that he actually made the depression last longer, but she believes it would have been a lot worse without him. After all, he started social security so old people wouldn't have to starve...