Why is FDR considered a good prez when he set up concentration camps?

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he set up camps for japanese AMERICAN citizens and didn't allow Jews entrance to the US. my mother in law was in one of those "camps" the government came and took them from their house with nothing but a suitcase for each one. they lost everything they were treated misserable there people and guards would spit on them throw,rocks and her sister was even raped. when they were let out no apology, no money nothing. Her sister and father were sent back to japan even though their family had been here for 100 yrs. they did not even speak the language. it severly tramatized her to the point that she never went outside unless it was an emergency.

yet he is in the top 5 list of us presidents. if he's in the top i would hate to see who is on the bottom
 
so he did one thing wrong, u probably would have done the same thing in his shoes... if ur asking for bottom presidents i would say reagen and bush jr
 
Why are George Washington and Thomas Jefferson considered great presidents even though they owned slaves?

Why is Abraham Lincoln considered a great president even though he suspended habeus corpus?

Why is Truman considered by many to be a great president even though he chose to drop an atomic bomb on two Japanese cities?

The answer is that presidents, no matter how much we want to idealize them and instill them with heroic qualities, are humans... complex, full of contradictions, and ultimately flawed.

Moreover, human ethical mores evolve over time, and standards that might have been considered within the bounds of accepted morality in one era may be considered questionable or even immoral in others. For example, who knows what Americans three generations from today may think of the fact that most of us think nothing of killing and eating other animals? Maybe nothing, but on the other hand, they may regard us with the same judgment that we reserve for the slave-holding Founding Fathers.

There will never be a president considered great who won't have some quality, some decision, some personal flaw, that will remind people that humans can aspire to greatness, but will always fall short. A realistic measure of presidential greatness may not be how close they approached perfection, but rather how well they demonstrated the qualities that humans aspire to at our best, and how well they inspired the people they led to exhibit those qualities as well.
 
possibly because his wife was an admitted communist and he got a lot of advice from her making him a big item for hollywood to glorify and make him seem better then he was. if i remember right he started our troubles when he took us off the gold standard in order to create a national debt
 
possibly because his wife was an admitted communist and he got a lot of advice from her making him a big item for hollywood to glorify and make him seem better then he was. if i remember right he started our troubles when he took us off the gold standard in order to create a national debt
 
FDR did not originate the idea; that came from the paranoid mind of a super-patriot Admiral (whose name I can't recall) who commanded the 12th Naval District, aka the West Coast.

FDR should have opposed it, of course. But as we can see in our own time it is politically difficult to argue against people like the Admiral. Or anti-Semites, in those days.

Before Pearl Harbor the great majority of us thought we should stay out of WWII and let the Europeans handle it themselves; our oceans would protect us.
 
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