If the grass looks greener on the other side, water your own lawn!

This misses a critical explanation for Eleanor’s “tea totaling.” Alcoholism was endemic in her family. Eleanor’s father Elliot (President Theodore Roosevelt’s brother), whom she deeply loved her entire life, died from alcoholism when she was a girl. Her own brother, Hall Roosevelt, became an alcoholic and would die from complications of alcohol abuse. She wasn’t merely prudishly abstentious, though undoubtedly some people inevitably perceived her as that. She’d seen alcohol destroy and kill people she loved, and drinking terrified her.

So very informative and thoughtful. Eleanor´s greatest sadness was her lonely, loveless childhood. She could not give what she did not have. An amazing couple, nonethless.

Wow I really want to learn more about Eleanor Roosevelt. She seemed like a remarkable First Lady. She even wrote in the news paper for the American people.

I read in the 1960s THIS I REMEMBER Eleanor's book account of her life with FDR. I didn't know she lived until 1962. I was born in 1953 and I am thankful that I have lived at this time in history.

This has got to be one of THE Very Best documentaries by Timeline ever.

What a great documentary! I really enjoyed watching it. My parents remembered FDR very well, as they were teenagers and in their twenties during Roosevelt's terms as President. They and I believed that FDR was one of America's greatest president. I myself believe that he was a greater president than Abraham Lincoln. FDR had to overcome almost impossible odds to become President and he led the nation through some of its darkest days during the Great Depression and the horrors of World War Two. I know that from my parents' stories those were truly terrible times and I am truly grateful that I was born long after the Second World War ended. This documentary just confirmed my admiration for the greatness of FDR as President.

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David Reynolds, you are a great host! As good as Attenborough! Timeline, these two docs are masterpieces! Absolute masterpieces!

I don't blame Mrs. Roosevelt for abstaining from alcohol! My late father started drinking socially when I was a young girl, but Mother NEVER touched it! He became an alcoholic and began to treat us all so very brutally when he drank and was horribly evil to Mother especially! Not ALL people who drink booze turn into alcoholics, I know, but many are addicted and destroy their own lives and the lives of their families!

I thought that i knew more than i did. Excellent content. Keep up the good work.

Very good piece. I appreciated information not given in other accounts.

More recent research has found that Roosevelt actually informed Truman About the bomb early on.But Truman was not involved in the management of the actual project

David Reynolds is the best narrator for history there is period.

This is a very precious documentary. Thank you VERY much for such a wonderful work. Cheers from the sunny Brazil.

Been waiting for some David Reynolds commentary.

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....my uncle, Wilmer Deckard, was FDR's right hand man SS agent. He traveled with him around the world to all the historic meetings. Wilmer began his career as a Pennsylvania State Police officer at Hershey, Pa. training center. He rose through the ranks to become the chief of the midwest division in Cleveland, Ohio. .......lots of stories....

God thank you🙏 I've been waiting for an FDR timline.

Thank you for the well done documentary.

It's been since discovered that he was actually suffering from Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a debilitating condition of the nerves and spinal cord that causes widespread body pain and deterioration.

A very enjoyable and informative study.

Verry impressive episode thanks for the learning

Congratulation for your video no doubt great persons

Your videos are wonderful

I’m obsessed with ‘The Big Three’. FDR is my favorite presi

Excellent video

The medical care of 1945 FDR received was NOT "botched". The effects of chronic tobacco abuse and alcohol on atherosclerosis and hypertension, and effective treatment and medical standards for antihypertensive medical therapy of hypertension were not yet available.

It is so obvious judging by the footage that Stalin felt extremely uncomfortable. And the whole atmosphere is tense. They can’t hide it.

Oh they even went to Springwood IN NY so cool i love that house

Great stuff

I recall hearing how FDR would purposely seat contrasting personalities next to each other at dinners. He enjoyed different people's personalities in different ways. Either a true connasseur of persons or a near manipulator.

Well done.

Churchill was right about the Soviets.

The 'HAPPY WARIOR' refers to Al Smith's campaign in 1928.

Unfair..how Eleanor is portrayed..without evidence...she was an amazingly empathic woman, trying to save lives..and she saved many and grew past her own personal difficulties...

Another interesting chapter in the history. Great documentary.

I was born in 1937 in WA state, USA so I lived through World War Two. My only blood uncle was a Marine in the South Pacific at that time and did make it home when it was over. I have told people that my two favorite presidents are Franklin Delenow Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman for what they did during those awful years. The second atomic boom was all that stopped the Japanese.

Thanks!

Hombre: - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945). - James Roosevelt I ( 1828-1900) - James Roosevelt (1760-1847) - Isaac Roosevelt (1726-1794)

Excellent program

Excellent

“Men will thank God on their knees a hundred years from now that Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House,” read the New York Times editorial on April 13, 1945. “It was his hand, more than that of any other single man, that built the great coalition of the United Nations. It was his leadership which inspired free men in every part of the world to fight with greater hope and courage. Gone is the fresh and spontaneous interest which this man took, as naturally as he breathed air, in the troubles and the hardships and the disappointments and the hopes of little men and humble people.”

Remarkable! I cannot fault his daughter as there was so much at stake. Absolutely incredible leader but like all of us, we must think about succession. The post-war world would have been so much different if FDR would have lived even a year longer. Elenor should have never estranged herself from her daughter. You don't do that to your children.

Yes I want to learn more

WOW HOW INTERESTING.

29:50 Well that's on the spot for today ^^

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Very cool they filmed in Hyde Park, NY. I grew up across the street from the FDR Springwood estate. Interesting to think how history can be your own backyard.

Interesting

Churchill was of course correct on the question of Eastern Europe.

At 32:06 Is visibly clear that the war has taken its toll on FDR. One of the greatest presidents. .

Stalin really was the big winner in 1944-6. He had no intention of following Wilsonian values concerning Poland and other Eastern European countries. He got everything he wanted. Eastern Europe was to be enslaved for 60 years despite the rhetoric of the western Allies to the contrary.

This is excellent, but why does Timeline reupload this so that it appears new other than to get more views from people who subscribed and/or already viewed it?

You skip Molotov's visit to the White House on the way to San Francisco for the founding of the United Nations. Astoundingly to Molotov, Harry Truman bawled him out, (as Harry and I, Missourians both, would call it.) Because the Soviet Union was not keeping its promises made at Yalta to let Poland and the other Eastern European countries have democratic elections. Where did Harry get the idea that had been promised at Yalta? From Churchill, of course. Churchill got to him immediately. Harry knew nothing about foreign affairs. Assumed Churchill was the Great Man whose interpretation must be right. So Harry invited Churchill to speak at Fulton, Missouri -- where he gave the "iron curtain" speech that brought on the Cold War. Also: it wasn't when Stalin heard the atom bombs were dropped on Japan that he started the Soviet effort to build an atom bomb. He had known about our Manhattan Project for years, via his spies. Even had our design for the bomb.

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In my time as an elementary and High School student in the late 1950's and the 60's the Soviet entry into the Pacific War with their invasion of Manchuria/Manchuko was presented as a fast grab for territory and plunder against a Japan that the USA had on the ropes. Forgetting conveniently the enormous effort and contribution of the British Empire and of China tying down the Japanese Army as America worried about the reinforcement of the Japanese Home Islands from Manchuria.

He was a mama's boy. Go visit their home where he and Eleanor are buried. Eleanor was relegated to the children's nursery while Mama Roosevelt had an adjoining room to FDR's.

Very pretty portrayal of a man that could have put an end to the depression with corrections shown to him that, because of politics and his “friends”, he refused to implement!

Guy was a frontiersman who once came into some sort of contact with sasquatch. Interesting huh!

I was told by an attorney, that Franklin was deeply depressed over his failing health and had some doubts as how the world would be after the war ended. Supposedly Franklin took his own life, and the government kept it secret. Is there anyone else out there that has come across anything similar?

The damage Franklin Roosevelt did in the U. S., and around the the world, exists to this day!

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And look where we are right now. Teetering on the brink of WWIII. It was necessary but allowing Stalin to get what he wanted was still a huge mistake...

Excellent. But the title - what a bummer. Was this really necessary? Your film illustrates that this was NOT what defined him or should be most remembered about FDR. Indeed, he and those close to him went to great effort and pain to distract attention away from it, and instead onto the issues that mattered more.

Are there any good films on FDR?

I'm Polish and hearing some facts regarding to Poles and the country, ,U.S President said it straight and I respect it. If Mr. Churchil had kept his word,even if had allowed at 1945 Victory Parade Poles to attend this so important acknowledgment and a thank you for my hero to sacrifice everything. Poles are and have been just a place a buffer zone between Asia,Russia to act as West wishes.

The cold war is never been over. What happened in 1945 is still feeling felt today in 2022 with Putin's delusions of reimagining the Soviet Union. It's amazing at 30 minutes and 15 seconds how he compares dealing with Vladimir Putin to dealing with Joseph Stalin.

The greatest president this country has ever had

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the greatest presidents to sever as commander in chief of the United States of America. Yes FDR made mistakes, most unfortunate being the Japanese American internment camps but he lead the USA through the worse economic crisis in history and lead the USA through the greatest war in human history. Truly a great leader that people of America loved. April 12th, 1945 was probably a very sad day for many.

Why was there no treatment of how he first was elected president? There was no discussion of how he first unsuccessfully struggled to implement his policies to improve the conditions of the great depression. There was nothing indicating that FDR tried to pack the U.S. Supreme Court or that he disgracefully interred Americans of Japanese descent. It's as if the only time that mattered in FDR's administration was the last 2 years of his administration, ignoring the previous decade of it!

He lifted and held a nation together in a wheelchair and worked himself to death in the interest of ending the worst war in history. Simply one of the greatest presidents of all time.

A great president

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I heard he was kidnapped in Morocco. I liked his name. What is the mission or goal? The battle of Roncesvalles. Certainly, the American Dream.

What was his reaction of Churchill on the death? Roosevelt ..we have learned about Stalin?

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Excuse me, actually, Franklin Roosevelt is the third and last of my Presidential Holy Trinity, after Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy

What if the real FDR was the wheel chairs we rode along the way?

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Micahs daddy was annihilated by the wheelchair president

AS much as the nuclear stalemate, the American navy made possible the worldwide prosperity we have enjoyed since the end of the war until now. This suceeding the more than 100 years dominance of the British Royal Navy.

This man, one of kind. A good president. ReEected for a 3rd term. Like many had a relations on the side. The best part his daughter would sneak his Broad without a knowledge of Deleonre. Got caught eventually, and the wife would not speak to own daughter for this even after his death for years.

Eleanor never appreciated Franklin? When did he ever appreciate her?

My favorite quote of his is I can either run the country or control Anna I can't possibly do both.

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I am more surprised about Rosevelt believing he could change Stalin's mind. The russians (putin) right now shows such a comparison to this documentary as well as Putin still thinking in the Soviet Union, Imperializm and total authoritarian regime. Sad to see how these old guys haven't adapted and moved on with the global situation. The end of an era and not too good for the Russians right now. Ukraine, you go guys. I am so amazed and proud of you and your fight for freedom, real freedom. God Bless

Mussolini, the founder of the Fascist movement, called FDR the perfect Fascist due to his economic and social policies.

If it weren't for this man we be speaking Japanese in German

The presenter is good, weirdly dramatic sometimes. But those impressions - just cut them out. FDR didn’t sound anything like that!

很久以前在电视上面看的，剧情大概这样：小学徒拿一个瓜还是葫芦削皮练习剃头，师娘经常喊他干活，他就把刀子插在葫芦上走了，后来学成了在给客人剃头，师娘喊他干活，他就把刀子插在客人头上了。

All this is common knowledge about FDR

Don't know why, but my grandparents, Mommas side, did not like FDR.

Less about politicians please

I love the envie in this guy's voiice. Dose he not know he could never be the person FDR was. Heavens he makes us, me and my children, laugh.

I bought a DVD from a bargain bin several years ago. It was called Hyde Park on the Hudson and starred Bill Murray, who I enjoy, and was about FDR, a president I have always thought saved the country from revolution with his programs during the depression. I only got around to watching it a few months ago. FDR’s reputation had already been somewhat tarnished for me when I had read Eleanor and Franklin: The War Years. The book describes his total lack of attention to Missy Le Hand when she was dying. Eleanor visited her, provided for her, and tried to get FDR to visit or at least write a note, but he refused to reach out in any way according to the book. He didn’t want to be made uncomfortable. He demonstrated a lack of empathy and was selfish in protecting himself, rather than considering the feelings and situation of a woman who had dedicated 21 years of her life to him. But nothing prepared me for the movie. In it FDR is portrayed as an insensitive sexual predator, preying on women over whom he has some power, whether emotional or financial. It was shocking, but believable, especially after reading the book. Note: In fairness, I must refer readers to information on Missy Le Hand found on Wikipedia. In that entry it details many financial actions taken by FDR to insure Miss Le Hand’s care and comfort; however, once she left the White House to live with her sister she never saw him again. Some of the entry does speculate on their possible romantic/sexual relationship, causing me to think again; she was his secretary and lived wherever the Roosevelt were. She was dependent on him for her emotional and financial needs and experienced jealousy when her status changed. So I must hold to my first thoughts; however unwelcome they are to me.