President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his political career as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson; he supported Governor Wilson in the 1912 presidential nomination; and ran for the vice presidency in 1920 as part of a package of support for Wilson's League of Nations.1 Wilson and Roosevelt are both well known for their political programs and accomplishments and both presidents have took a strong stance on the role of the United States on the world stage. Roosevelt used Wilson's policies as a guide for his presidency, but did not strictly adhere to Wilsonianism throughout his tenure in the White House. Roosevelt may have entered office as a Wilsonian Democrat, but he made it clear during his campaign that he would not respect them. the internationalist ideas of the Wilson administration. During Roosevelt's campaign, he told those gathered for his speech at the New York Grange "that if he had been in favor of the entry of the United States into the League of Nations as it was being considered in 1920, the Society had changed and he was opposed to the idea of ​​joining it now”; 2 and its leaders "had been forced to promise William Randolph Hearst that in an FDR administration there would be no international entanglements"3 to secure the 1932 presidential nomination. Once in office, one One of Roosevelt's first acts on the world stage was to “torpedo” the London Economic Conference4 by rejecting the agreement and openly denouncing monetary stabilization. At first, it seemed as if Roosevelt was declaring that he was not interested in internationalism. Roosevelt was influenced by Wilson, although only to the extent suggested by David Fromkin did Roosevelt believe that "Wilsonism was a catalog of disastrous errors." to avoid. »5 This is obvious...... middle of document ....../pdfviewer?sid=31715690-777e-443d-8ac4-06ff82e472f7%40sessionmgr4002&vid=9&hid=4110.Roosevelt, Franklin D. «Speech before the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.” Speech of December 28, 1933. The project of the American presidency. Accessed February 13, 2014. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14593.Walker, Stephen G. and Mark Schafer. “Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson as Cultural Icons of American Foreign Policy.” Political Psychology 28, no. 6 (December 2007): 747-776. Complete commercial source, EBSCOhost. Accessed February 13, 2014. http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.umuc.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=2889194b-db5c-4801-b7d8-930c2a44b7ce%40sessionmgr115&vid=3&hid=107.Wilson, Woodrow. “Fourteen points.” Speech, Washington, DC, January 8, 1918. American rhetoric. Accessed February 13, 2014. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wilsonfourteenpoints.htm.