"The greatest Democratic President of the 20th century and in my judgment the greatest President of the 20th century..."
A liberal Democrat, Roosevelt defined his ideological position as "a little left of center"[2] and also called his cabinet "slightly to the left of center".[3]
VIEW NEWT'S UNWAVERING ADMIRATION OF FDR
He orchestrated the realignment of voters that created the Fifth Party System. FDR's New Deal Coalition united labor unions, big city machines, white ethnics, African Americans and rural white Southerners. Roosevelt's diplomatic impact also resonated on the world stage long after his death, with the United Nations and Bretton Woods as examples of his administration's wide-ranging impact.
