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I picked Roosevelt, because Lincoln screwed up hard by having Andrew f***ing Johnson as his vice president. Lincoln may not have been very invested in helping newly-freed black people, but he probably wouldn't have spite-pardoned literally every Confederate. That went a long way in insuring that the South largely remained in the grasp of its incredibly racist Antebellum elite.
Meanwhile, Roosevelt had Harry Truman, who was a pretty competent guy and actually subscribed to most of the same goals.