He was a crooked politician, not a god. Fame is fleeting and most crumble into the dust of history. Some, by their words or deeds rise to prominence in the historical recognition of man. Roosevelt didn't make the cut.
Whether a person agrees with FDR’s policies or whether they honor him or not is beside the point. How is a man who was president for 12 years, through the Great Depression and the Second World War, and whose policies still impact us, relegated to historical obscurity? That can happen only if the study and knowledge of history itself has been allowed to crumble into dust. The root of the problem lies with the schools, the young heads full of mush, and parents who don’t see to it that their children are properly educated and don’t cultivate the innate curiosity about things that most children have and a lot of children, unfortunately, lose. My guess is that those ignorant of who FDR was don’t even have the level of interest and curiosity necessary to ask, “Hey. Who is this guy on the dime?”