Leadership is really what makes the world go round. The idea of leadership affirms the capacity of individuals to move, inspire and mobilize masses of people so that they act together in pursuit of an end. Thus, it is a public transaction with history. Those who believe that individuals make no difference to history might ponder whether the next two decades would have been the same had Giuseppe Zangara’s bullet killed Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 or had Adolf Hitler had been killed in the street fighting during the Munich Putsch of 1923 and that Lenin had died of typhus during the First World War. What would the 20th century be like now? Indeed, individuals make a difference. Accordingly, Franklin Delano Roosevelt had saved America from the economic crisis and the world from the devastation of World War II.

Franklin Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York, on January 30, 1882. He formally entered politics in 1910, when he became a candidate for the New York State Senate. Democratic leaders had approached young Roosevelt because of his local prominence, and because he might be expected to pay his own election expenses. Roosevelt became an assistant secretary of the United States Navy in 1913. Being in this position for seven years taught him both how to get things accomplished, and how to avoid unnecessary trouble ("Franklin Delano Roosevelt"). Thus, the experience of the nation at war influenced him and he rapidly learned about government management in time of crisis. Unfortunately, his leg paralyzed when he reached thirty-nine (Joseph 5). In spite of the difficulties, he faced all obstacles.

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