If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.
You may not like Mr. Roosevelt, but if he loss the war, we all lose it with him.
Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.
I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.
Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.
But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.
But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality.
If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.
If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.