the best of them have always understood what fdr understood in september of 1932 he was asked by the "new york times" to define the presidency he was trying to take away if herbert hoover. he said the presidency is not a management job, it is preeminently a place of moral leadership. and he understood that in the cataclysm of the depression peddling fear was madness. that was the anti-semitic way. he needed to project hope. the drama of the 1930s which enabled us in 19 whos to project across the world to defeat tyranny was not at least attributable to his capacity to save capitalism, to save the marketplace in 1933 forward.