Roosevelt managed to keep us out of World War II until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. This, in retrospect, might not have been a good thing. Someone really should have stomped the crap out of Hitler before he got as far as he did, and someone should have done something about the way the Japanese were rampaging all over Asia, but that's Monday morning quarterbacking. We weren't really prepared for war, even when the Japanese attack came. Had the Japanese known how much damage they actually did at Pearl Harbor (pretty much wiped out the US Pacific fleet), they could have invaded the West Coast without much opposition.

Those who keep saying that Roosevelt got us into WWII (presumable to end the Depression) are a bit fuzzy in their knowledge of history.

Don Firth