Jumat, 08 September 2017

Did FDR Doom Us to a Longer War?

He sided with Churchill. He ignored his military advisers. As commander in chief of the United States during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt seized the controls of America’s war-making apparatus more firmly than any president since Abraham Lincoln in the Civil War. FDR was not a military meddler in the mold of Winston …

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