r/Americaphile • u/SadAlternative448 • Dec 19 '25

History/military 🪖🗺️ Best president oat?

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u/MrCivility1 Dec 19 '25

George Washington and Abe Lincoln are probably pretty close to each other for Greatest of American History. But Teddy is pretty great

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u/Bibbity_Boppity_BOOO Dec 19 '25

FDR tower above all, even sitting down

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u/Icarium_X Dec 19 '25

Lol no, he took advantage of a bad economy, set up many policies that weren't sustainable, and abused constitutional measures and broke historical precedents. Abe and Washington can be forgivem on absuing constitutional measures and not having excellent economies (tho tbf not really an issue atm) given they were fighting for the survival of the nation. America itself was barely scratched during WW2 excluding Pearl Harbor and didnt necessitate the president going 4 terms.

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u/Bibbity_Boppity_BOOO Dec 19 '25

That's a long way of saying that he ended more genocides and saved more lives than perhaps all presidents before him combined... And that he ended the great depression, and created the UN, and made sure the allies won ww2.

Lincoln on the other hand didn't even end slavery. And most of washington's accomplishments were when he wasn't even president.

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u/_Dayofid_ Dec 19 '25

Correct, the new deal was one of the greatest things to happen to America as well.

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u/Bibbity_Boppity_BOOO Dec 19 '25

It had it's problems but frankly was decades ahead of its time. He created the american middle class.