Reply #3: It was Churchill's fault.

[napoleon_in_rags]

FDR lived a fairly conservative life, early to bed early to rise. Then Churchill came in, and FDR would stay up to 2am drinking with him every night, this man from Britain who would knock down a double with breakfast. FDR was ever the gracious host, but it cost him here.

FDR had something about him as well that was really unique in history. He had the big picture, and he knew it, and he also knew almost none of the other people around him did, so he took things on because he felt he had a moral obligation to do so. I feel like that was the case with the third term.

Also a little voice inside me questions the circumstances of his death. A private meeting with Lucy Mercer arranged by his daughter and hidden by all, and that Russian painter... Stalin and FDR never really were totally on the same side.