History rates president's, thou most know when the term of office is over if he will be remembered well. Great president's are measured with the challenges they face in office. Something always happens, rarely does a president not have a challenge. Roosevelt was great, he over came so much to lead America forward. Great president's move the country forward during a crisis. They meet the challenge, depression, war, and providing for the elderly to have some kind of dignity in growing old. Truman deciding to drop the bomb, Eisenhower and the interstate system, Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis.