On December 7, 1941, at around 1:30 p.m., President Franklin Roosevelt is conferring with advisor Harry Hopkins in his study when Navy Secretary Frank Knox bursts in and announces that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. The attack killed more than 2,400 naval and military personnel.
For weeks, a war with Japan had appeared likely since negotiations had deteriorated over the subject of Japan’s military forays into China and elsewhere in the Pacific during World War II. FDR and his advisors knew that an attack on the U.S. fleet at the Philippines was possible, but few suspected the naval base at Pearl Harbor would be a target.
In her account of Roosevelt and first lady Eleanor during the years of the Second World War, No Ordinary Time, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin recounts the scene at the White House on that tragic and pivotal day: Eleanor had just finished hosting a luncheon and walked into FDR’s study just as he received confirmation of the attack via telephone. While aides and secretaries scurried around the room, Eleanor overheard some of her husband’s conversation and knew that, in her words, “the final blow had fallen and we had been attacked.”
Although Eleanor, who knew Roosevelt best, later recalled her husband’s demeanor on that day as “deadly calm,” she knew that he was incensed by the attacks. He was concerned that it might only be a matter of time until Germany, too, would officially declare war on the United States and that, at that moment, U.S. forces would be hard-pressed to fight a war on two fronts. According to Goodwin, he told Eleanor that it would take time for the United States to build up its military and that he feared the nation would “have to take a good many defeats before we can have a victory.” Indeed, FDR and his advisors had discussed the possibility that the Japanese were already planning an invasion of the mainland somewhere on the West Coast.
As the day wore on, Roosevelt displayed a calm and steady efficiency: He consulted with military advisors, enlisted his son James’ help to work with the media and spoke by telephone with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who told him “we are all in the same boat now.” Early that evening, Roosevelt dictated a speech to his secretary, Grace Tully, which he planned to deliver to Congress the next day. (Eleanor actually addressed the nation on the subject of war before her husband. That evening she delivered a scheduled weekly radio broadcast in which she told listeners that although the United States had been thrust reluctantly into the war she was confident that “whatever is asked of [America] we shall accomplish it; we are the free and unconquerable people of the U.S.A.”) Late that night, Roosevelt updated his cabinet and Congressional members on the situation: “this is probably the most serious crisis any Cabinet has confronted since the Civil War.” One cabinet member later noted that the president, a former Navy man, was visibly distraught while recounting what he had been told of the strafing of sailors and the destruction of most of the Pacific fleet. After the meeting, Roosevelt went to bed.
The next day, Roosevelt addressed Congress and the nation with a somber yet stirring speech in which he swore that America would never forget December 7, 1941, as a “date that would live in infamy.”
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I guess today’s media would call it a mostly peaceful attack.
They were Asians attacking, and they hate Asians. Never know. Now an attack from Obama’s Kenyan ancestors certainly would be characterized as such.
I just picked up some mostly peaceful jacketed hollow-points for my .45 Colt!!!
And If he was still alive, he would still be in office. Same as it ever was.
https://westernrifleshooters.us/2021/12/06/zg-sends-december-7-1941/
They had manuvered the Japs into a ‘must attack’ position and had broken their codes. They knew an attack was coming in the days before Dec 7. FDR needed an excuse to get into a war and they let it happen.
Additional research will show that FDR also helped get the U.S. into WWI in his role of Secretary of the Navy. He was in cahoots with Winston Churchill (check out the real story of Churchill sometime) in setting up the LUSITANIA. He was never shy about sacrificing others for his own objectives
There is good reason to think that the Lusitania sinking was a setup and that most of the passengers did not die….
Ray you just had to bring that up didn’t you.
Another inconvenient little bit of truth was that Germany had taken out Ads in every paper in the area of the Lusitanias departure warning people not to buy tickets aboard her because she was a warship carrying munitions and there was a rumor she would be sunk.
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/atlantean_conspiracy/atlantean_conspiracy19.htm
Hi Wilbur,
Yes indeed, I have even seen historical photos of flyers warning people posted at various locations in the NYC area. When I label them as Malignant Overlords, I always feel like I am being too easy on them … Murderous Scum has a nice ring to it.
The best part was that FDR had withdrawn all the modern ships from Pearl Harbor, so the Japanese bombed pre-WW1 outmoded rust buckets, while missing the all important fuel tanks that would have knocked the US Navy out of the Pacific for 18 months…Did the US have an agent in the Jap Government?
Right, the tank farm went unmolested and on the way home one or two squads of Japanese Marines could have waltzed onto Midway and planted the flag with narry a shot being fired.
That bastard knew the attack would happen. The Navy cryptologists had broken the Japanese naval code months before. The battleships sunk were not strategic factors in the first war, much less the second. They, like the men who manned them, were expendable. The carriers were sent out of Pearl to keep them out of the fray. On that day there were already 14 carrier projects underway in various stages. He knew. Twenty-four hundred souls murdered as they lay in their cots.
Why, it’s almost like the leaders of our nation have been treacherous puke pieces of shit from the beginning!!!
Whoodathunkit.
Maybe since 1700 or so, huuda tunkitt.
FDR knew about Pearl Harbor days before it even happened. What a fraud.
And, a murderer!
Fool me twice, shame on me!!!
“He boasts that the United States “while still maintaining an outward show of independence” is identical with other colonies in its relationship to the Crown. “Has not President Wilson cancelled the big Navy program and dutifully conceded to us the command of the seas?”
He boasts that “the Anglo American alliance” has become “the unchallenged financiers of the world.”
He congratulates “our fiscal agents Messrs Pierpont Morgan & Company” for “putting this country into the war.” They exert “widespread influence on newspaper policy” through advertising and lent $200,000,000 to Japan to build a fleet to compete with America (making the U.S still more dependent on England.)”
“Col. House continues: The “peaceful return of the American colonies” can only be brought about with “the consent of the dominant group of the controlling clans.”
House-Wilson2_1.jpg(left, Rothschild agent Col. E.M. House with puppet Woodrow Wilson)
Col. House relates how these classes are being taught to accept “British” leadership. He details how the universities and press are staffed by “British-born” or Canadians.
“Through the Red Cross, the Scout movement, the YMCA, the church, and other humane, religious, and quasi religious organizations, we have created an atmosphere of international effort which strengthens the idea of unity of the English speaking world.”
https://www.henrymakow.com/000426.html?_ga=2.71626129.368008072.1638749157-585894304.1630817101
Fool me Thrice??? Who was that dominant group? Germans?
My big question about the Pearl Harbor attack has always been – even if we don’t’ get into “conspiracy theories”, would not the USA Navy even in peace time, use seaplanes like the PBY Catalina, or other recon planes, to do standard patrols of the waters surrounding the base, to provide warning for an attack? Or at least use shore-based radar?
Look at oil and steel trade policy with Japan. That is the definitive proof the war was orchestrated on the US side.
Yes, the more you read about him, he was a complete commie. He put in the big government agenda, and his cousin Teddy did the same. But compared to Biden, they were saints.
Cousin Teddy at least had good taste in names for his firearms.
Named his Winchester .405 BIG MEDICINE!!! Which name I promptly appropriated for my .45-70.
But yes, FFDR.
I do admire that Teddy was a nature lover.