My Presidential Dinner by lars

My Presidential Dinner by lars - October 2017 Scholarship Essay

Lars Wakefield
Varsity Tutors
14 October 2017
My Presidential Dinner

Having a dinner with any president would be a huge honor to me. It would probably be the highlight of my life because I could say “I had dinner with a president of the United States”. For me the president I would pick would be FDR. I picked him because I would want to know what it was like as president during the Great Depression and he was one of the best presidents we have ever had in our history.
The first reason I would have dinner with FDR is that I would want to know what it was like being president during the Great Depression. He brought the U.S. out of it with his New Deal but I would want more specific answers and events that took place. I would want to see how the White House and the Legislative Branch were running at the time. I would find it very interesting on how it decided to do what he did and how he did it. I could learn from what his reasoning and decision making was and use it in my daily life. I feel he would be very open with what was going on inside the government during that time and also see what people’s arguments were that were against some of the things he did. It would be a very influential talk because I could learn from what he did and also learn more about the Great Depression than I have in my history classes.
The second reason I would have dinner with FDR is that he was one of the best presidents we have ever had. He was the only, and will be the only, president to be elected four times to office in secession. That had to make a law after he died that no president could serve more than two terms. He helped the U.S. get through the Great Depression with his New Deal and also helped them in WW2 which got the U.S. out of the Great Depression. He was a “fan favorite” by most of the U.S. because of how he ran the presidency and how he drastically helped the U.S. out of its biggest “slump”. He was also a great negotiator being the only president during the time to reason and get along with Stalin. After he died the next couple of presidents did not get along with Stalin and were not as good as FDR in foreign policy. It would be an honor to me and probably to nearly every U.S. citizen to talk more or less have a dinner with FDR and I am one of those people.
Having a dinner with any president from our past would be an honor to me and especially FDR. He was the longest standing president with four terms in office and was the man who got the U.S. out of the Great Depression. I picked FDR because I would want to know what it was like as president during the Great Depression and he was one of the best presidents we have ever had in our history.