How would F.D.R. have reacted to Stalin's actions between 1945-1949?

Suppose F.D.R. holds out a few more years. He doesn't need to win a 5th term, maybe he even leaves office as his illness gets worse, but he still survives until around 1950. How would he react to the beginning of the Cold War, provided it would still occur ITTL?
 
Its possible he was already seeing the light..



From ‘Warlords, the heart of conflict 1939 – 1945’ by Simon Berthon and Joanna Potts.



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Evidence that a niggling doubt had now lodged in Roosevelt’s mind surfaced the next day (March 30 1945). He asked the lend-lease administrator Leo Crowley: ‘How much do the Russians owe us?’ Crowley replied that it was somewhere in the region of eleven billion dollars. Roosevelt told him that Henry Morgenthau had suggested the Soviets be given ten billion more. Crowley said he was opposed to this. Roosevelt agreed. ‘I have yet to get any concessions from Stalin,’ he remarked. ‘We are getting down to the tail end of the war. I do not want you to let out any more long-term contracts on Lend-Lease,’ he ordered Crowley, ‘further, I want you to shut off Lend-Lease the moment Germany is defeated.’ He also conveyed his anxieties to an aide, Chester Bowles: ‘We’ve taken a great risk here, an enormous risk, and it involves the Russian intentions. I’m worried. I still think Stalin will be out of his mind if he doesn’t cooperate, but maybe he’s not going to; in which case, we’re going to have to take a different view.’
 

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I'm pretty sure he'll be greatly affected by the fact that some of his own appointees were Soviet moles; that ought to affect his legacy, should he live through that... :(
 
If Roosevelt is to survive until the end of his 4th term his health, including at Yalta, would have to be dramatically better. Would a “healthy Roosevelt” have made the same agreements that were made at Yalta? The answer I think is yes. Concerning Poland and the rest of Central Europe Roosevelt and the United States were in no position to do much of anything. The Red Army had occupied those lands and Stalin would not have abandoned his position other than in the context of losing World War III. The major concessions that Roosevelt got were the commitment of Soviet attack on Japan and the United Nations. Japanese records show that the Red Army attack was viewed more seriously than the A bomb in the surrender decision.

I would see the Soviet Union and Stalin doing pretty much what they did whoever was US President. Ultimately I think Roosevelt would have responded very similarly to what Truman did. FDR would have had a slight advantage in the effect of his prestige in foreign countries. While admittedly a long shot FDR would have had the best chance of anyone to mediate in China.
 
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