Just exposing my curious side in this one.

Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy...and many others. Which president do you think has done the most during his term in office to shape our country into what it is today?? My pick would have to be FDR, mostly for what he did to get us out of the Great Depression and for taking us almost all the way through WWII.

Well like I said before President Kennedy moved our country into the modern day as we know it now. When he was alive this whole country was captivated by him, the whole world was .He had something differant from the rest . Just listen to his speeches compaired to the other presidents speeches .He gave us all hope and made us proud to be Americans. Had he lived Vietnam would have ended in the mid 60's.He made it very clear it was there war to fight and there war to win.America ended up getting bogged down in there becouse of our Military complex and huge military contracts. His style and class was head and shoulders above any President since Lincoln. The only President even close to his style and class was Reagan. Thats just my belief thou .

I think Lincoln did the most to make our country what it is today. He was faced with a nation that was coming apart at the seams, and he forsaw that America's greatness lay in it's future as one nation, not as a collection of States. He went to war to keep this nation whole, and the current strong federal government we have is largely his doing.

I cannot pick one. I believe a combination of beliefs and ideas are the results we see today.

Lincoln is a good choice as he faced the Civil War and led us back from that war. But he was an average President other than that. Many leaders have contributed to the country. But if we are to judge a leader by all that makes him great then we have to look at people who were not elected but supported us as well.
I think that Kennedy was a good homefront leader but poor in the field of Foreign Relations, Nixon was poor at home but very good in Foreign Relations.
I am not sure if could say that any President was good in both.

FDR really introduced the idea of an activist government that gets more involved with the economy and with improving people's lives and such. I think that's really permeated society to such an extent that you end up with conservatives like Bush introducing the drug bill for seniors. I'm not debating good or bad, I just think that it was a tremendous change in the way we view and what we expect from our government.

I agree with you on that Lionel. I sat today and did some thinking, and I guess I will say that IMO Woodrow WIlson should be mentioned here, His idea for a league of nations was a good one, but then we went a little too far and ended up with a UN that is so crippled by politics that it cant react fast enough to stop a fly.

Originally posted by Vilepagan
I think Lincoln did the most to make our country what it is today. He was faced with a nation that was coming apart at the seams, and he forsaw that America's greatness lay in it's future as one nation, not as a collection of States. He went to war to keep this nation whole, and the current strong federal government we have is largely his doing.


mucho mucho what i was going to say