![]() ![]() ![]() The day after the attack, Hoover told a friend that FDR’s “continuous putting pins in rattlesnakes finally got this country bitten.” into an “undeclared war with Germany and Japan, in total violation of promises upon which he had been elected a few weeks before.” Roosevelt’s “total economic sanctions” against Japan in the summer of 1941, and his “contemptuous refusal” of the Japanese prime minister’s peace proposals in September, Hoover saw as the crucial precursors to Pearl Harbor. He had a “surpassing power of oratory and word pictures,” Hoover wrote, but “intellectual integrity was not his strong point.” The Gathering Storm was “a mass of bitter attacks upon Baldwin and Chamberlain who had kept him out of office for years.”Īnother “major blunder,” Hoover thought, was FDR’s decision in 1941 to throw the U.S. ![]()
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