Was he the closest of any US president

>>2477604
He or Lincoln.

[spoiler]I also think they were both good Presidents.[/spoiler]

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>>2477604
No.

>>2477604
Imagine what he would have accomplished had he not had polio

Any wartime president is going to possess a wider latitude of discretionary power than peacetime presidents. That being said, no president was very close to be an actual dictator. Even during the middle of a civil war the democratic electoral process was not interrupted.