President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his political career as assistant secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson; supported Governor Wilson in the 1912 presidential nomination; and ran for vice president in 1920 on a platform of support for Wilson's League of Nations.1 Wilson and Roosevelt are both well known for their political programs and achievements, and both presidents took strong positions on the function 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 during his tenure in the White House. Roosevelt may have taken office as a Wilsonian Democrat, but he made it clear during his campaign that he would not support the internationalist ideas of the Wilson administration. During Roosevelt's campaign he told those present for his speech at the Grange in New York "that while he had favored American entry into the League of Nations as had been intended in 1920, the League had changed, and he was opposed to entering it now "; 2 and his managers “had been forced to promise William Randolph Hearst that in an FDR administration there would be no international involvement”3 to secure the 1932 presidential nomination. Once in office, one of Roosevelt's first acts on the scene world was to "torpedo" the London Economic Conference4 by rejecting the agreement and opening the denunciation of monetary stabilization. At first it seemed that Roosevelt was making a statement that he was not interested in internationalism. Roosevelt was influenced by Wilson, although it is only in the point suggested by David Fromkin that Roosevelt felt that "Wilsonianism was a catalog of disastrous errors". to be avoided.”5 This is evident… half of the 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 U.S. Foreign Policy." Political Psychology 28, no. 6 (December 2007): 747-776. Comprehensive company 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 delivered in Washington, D.C., January 8, 1918. American Rhetoric. Accessed February 13, 2014. http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wilsonfourteenpoints.htm.