Franklin D. Roosevelt was the most influential American President of the twentieth century. That he won four terms of office (and thus became the only American President to serve more than two terms) is, at the same time, a reason for that influence and a reflection of it. FDR presented himself as the synthesis not merely of the Progressivism of his predecessors Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson -- he claimed that his Administration's policies reconciled …showed first 75 words of 3653 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3653 total…Even this limited redress, however, had to overcome opposition from American veterans of the Pacific War and groups actuated by prejudice against people of Japanese ancestry. The Japanese internment cases have never been overturned by the Supreme Court; they remain a troubling lesson to the nation that constitutional safeguards of individual rights are little more than parchment barriers if a majority of Americans is willing to tolerate the trampling of the rights of a minority.