I'm tempted to just +1 for Lincoln, since, regardless of his various flaws and mistakes, I do believe he tried the hardest of any American elected leader to do the right and the good, to never betray his public trust, and to serve the common people of the nation.
That said, I am going to put my vote in for FDR. We could use a little of his populist mojo right now....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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