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FDR was by far the best President in the history of the United States, and it's not even close, but even he had concentration camps. The United States was always evil.
FDR also compromised on the New Deal, excluding African Americans from many new deal programs that would have helped, and also his administration made segregation country-wide via the Federal Housing Administration and their red-lining policies (see the book The Color of Law)
Not In My Neighborhood is also an excellent book about the history of redlining.
I would say Lincoln isn't that far away
Committed genocide against indigenous people
that's every US president
What we needed was a John Brown presidency but apparently it's illegal to be that based.
As did FDR