Nicholas Kristof: When Biden becomes Rooseveltian

Soon after Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated in 1933, a visitor assessed the stakes of his New Deal proposal.“Mr. President, if your program succeeds, you’ll be the greatest president in American history,” the visitor told him. “If it fails, you will be the worst one.”“If it fails,” Roosevelt responded, “I’ll be the last one.”That story, from Jonathan Alter’s excellent book “The Defining Moment,” about Roosevelt&rsquo