Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt from Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream and what is their importance?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is credited with havong the greatest influence on Johnson's political career. Johnson had many personal mentors along the way, but it was FDR's strong leadership during the Depression that Johnson most admired. To Johnson, Roosevelt was the ideal president, taking control of every aspect of governing a nation that needed to be dragged, program by program, out of its economic disease. Johnson emulated Roosevelt's power over Congress, and his Great Society was an attempt to recreate a modern version of the New Deal programs of the 1930s.