Roosevelt looks to me like one of those people who has the reality distortion field ability. The things he did to deal with the depression were really effective, at least in making people feel like somebody was finally doing something. He left behind a lot of legacies that people in the united states argue over,. everything from, you know, a bunch of different government departments to things like social security.
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives...