Presidential Biographies | Franklin D. Roosevelt Administrations - The Roosevelt Administration Legacy

The Roosevelt Administration Legacy

On April 12, 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his summer cottage in Warm Springs, Georgia. Harry S. Truman was inaugurated as president that evening. The entire allied world mourned his passing. In the years after his death, the rumors of Roosevelt's ill-health that had started during his last presidential campaign were discovered to have been true; Roosevelt was already suffering from serious heart and artery problems when he was inaugurated to his last term in January of 1945. This has led many to question if Roosevelt truly served the best interests of the nation by continuing as president in his weakened state. Of particular controversy is whether his weakness may have led to inappropriate U.S. concessions to the Soviet Union at the Yalta Conference, only two months before his death.