FDR was our GREATEST PRESIDENT. If you are trying to disparage him by his saying "...there is nothing wrong with the communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have are Communists", just remember that he was fighting a war with ALLIES who were Communist... the Russians. He also said, "I do not believe in Communism any more than you do..." but I know that the dead-ender Republicans are out to rewrite history in order to erase the fact that they are actively destroying FDR's New Deal policies in order to turn the middle class into compliant serfs. The Republican Ideology can be broken down to two words: CHEAP LABOR. "... allthough I rubbed my eyes when I read it, we have been told that it was not a Republican depression, but a Democratic depression from which this Nation was saved in 1933 - that this Administration this one today - is responsible for all the suffering and misery that the history books and the American people have always thought had been brought about during the twelve ill-fated years when the Republican party was in power. Now, there is an old and somewhat lugubrious adage which says: "Never speak of rope in the house of a man who has been hanged." In the same way, if I were a Republican leader speaking to a mixed audience, the last word in the whole dictionary that I think I would use is that word "DEPRESSION." - FDR