Now I know why shezan thinks so much of Conrad Black

...THERE HAS BEEN A good deal of revisionist comment recently that Roosevelt's policies did not end the Depression, but as U.S. GDP doubled in his 12 years in office and unemployment declined from roughly 30 percent to 0.5 percent, that case is difficult to sustain (and is in fact, nonsense).
One sentence. Four items of data. One indubitable smackdown. And he wrote it for a conservative magazine, which is an act of courage.