In 1940 and 1941 president roosevelt wished to prolong negotiations with the japanese rather than go to war. why

FDR was not a good president and his socialist legacy harms us to this day. he was an aspiring dictator who ruled for longer than what was gentlemanly (4 terms) and tried to circumvent the Constitution by packing the Supreme Court with Democrats (1937 Judiciary Reorganization Bill). his New Deal policies, according to most economists, extended the Great Depression at least 7 years longer than it needed to last. also, FDR was a communist sympathizer who cozied up with Stalin and allowed the Soviets to take East Berlin.