Fascist Dictator Roosevelt

U.S. presidential candidates used to not campaign for themselves and feigned disinterest for the position because of the belief that the presidency of the United States should neither be sought nor declined and that political campaigns were beneath the dignity of men suited for governance.

via reddit.com

source: http://www.uvm.edu/~dguber/POLS125/articles/ellis.htm

Of course FDR started that crap. What a dick.

FDR: What a nice country we have. It would be a shame

if someone turned it into an authoritarian Keynesian hellhole.