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It was instinct that helped F. D. R. find his way through a political labyrinth that was navigable by neither intellect nor principle alone.

I didn't say the result was good, commented F. D. R. to a State Department official after Yalta. I said it was the best I could do.

F. D. R. 's slightly extended family sat for this photo in 1928, around the time when he was running for governor of New York.

F. D. R. was able to enact Social Security in part because the Great Depression highlighted the need for a stronger social safety net.

At a fundraising dinner in 2008, in Montclair, New Jersey, Obama told one of his favorite stories about F. D. R.

F. D. R. probably was lying when he promised the anxious parents of 1940 that "your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. "

David Brooks: Interestingly, that was the argument F. D. R. used to create Social Security in the first place.

The painting, part of a series illustrating F. D. R. 's "Four Freedoms, " shows an ordinary citizen expressing an unpopular opinion.

On April 12, while posing for a portrait, F. D. R. suffered a massive stroke and died a few hours later.

F. D. R. 's premature attempt to balance the budget in 1937 almost destroyed the New Deal.

F. D. R. 's silence between his election and his Inauguration may have deepened the crisis.

President Obama's economists promised not to repeat the mistakes of 1937, when F. D. R. pulled back fiscal stimulus too soon.

Even after abandoning that idea, F. D. R. and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delayed an Allied invasion of France until 1944.

Therein lies perhaps F. D. R. 's greatest lesson for the foreign policy? makers of today.

The story of 1937, of F. D. R. 's disastrous decision to heed those who said that it was time to slash the deficit, is well known.

After consolidating his position, F. D. R. opened the New Deal floodgates.

Finally, the Obama administration and Democrats in general need to do everything they can to build an F. D. R. -like bond with the public.

F. D. R. was called a lot worse names than socialist.

They read books about the New Deal and sought to learn from F. D. R.

It's true that the interregnum will be shorter this time: F. D. R. wasn't inaugurated until March;

Presidents and Their Debts, F. D. R. to Bush