The Greatest 20th Century President

Contrast the Bush politics of moralistic hardness with FDR's politics of common-sense tolerance, and it almost makes you nostalgic for the Depression and World War II. At the Arcadia Conference, in December 1941, at which the Grand Alliance formulated its first Declaration of the United Nations (no relation to today's U.N.), Roosevelt persuaded the Soviets to accept the principle of religious freedom by reminding them, as Robert Sherwood wrote, "that the traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all."

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