Reconsidering our reverence for FDR
Posted by BrianAmity Shlaes has a great column in the Wall Street Journal that takes a fresh look at FDR. It’s worth a read, but here is a single line that gives the flavor of the piece.
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July 2nd, 2007 at 9:37 pm
FDR -knew- that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor. This journalist (author of ‘Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor’) says so, and he’s a JOURNALIST!!!
http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=514
This is my favorite part from the WSJ article: “The Brain Trusters were not, for the most part, fascists or communists. They were thoughtful people who wrote in the New Republic.”
Heh -”for the most part”-