his surprised he became so religious. lincoln said i don t know how you could get through the traumas of war without being religious. lady bird johnson told me during the days of the vietnam war, she thought her husband might become a catholic. did fdr in effect give his body, his life to the war effort and coming out the other side? he absolutely did. the last couple of years of world war ii franklin roosevelt was suffered from advanced cardiovascular disease that got worse and worse and the result was that he died early had he not been a war president probably wouldn t have happened. same thing with woodrow wilson who sufed a stroke a year and a half before the end of his presidency was almost entirely paralyzed and unable to function. these war presidents do not go through this experience without an enormous cost. i know this book has to come to an end and i m sad about that