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Image:  FDR 1941 Inauguration.  Silent footage of Franklin D. Roosevelt's third inaugural, January 21, 1941, including National Youth Administration participants, motorcade to Capitol, oath of office, inaugural address, and parade. From President Roosevelt's collection. Archival footage from the FDR Presidential Library.   Conrad Black, @ConradMBlack (https://twitter.com/ConradMBlack) , publisher, littérateur, biographer, commentator; the National Post; in re:  FDR was constantly in the news and irritated many. Have we just lived through a similar time?  Mmm—FDR was a suave, patrician gentleman. He did have the working press on his side, was a publicly charming man.  He entered office with a vast mandate to solve a terrible crisis: there were machine gun nests in Washington, stock exchanges and banks had been closed for may days; he had the support of journalists if not publishers.  . . . FDR clamed to be strictly neutral, but extended territory to a thousand miles across the Atlantic, and offered lend-lease to allies.  My guess is that Trump would have won this election had he not been sandbagged by the media.  He’s still the most popular person in the US.