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Michael Beschloss
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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC 3 Sep 2017

    After start of war in Europe, FDR said today 1939, "I hope the United States will keep out of this war. I believe that it will.” #NARApic.twitter.com/Bx2zxCWJNZ

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      1. NaomiH_nothing‏ @NaomiH_nothing 3 Sep 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        FDR succeeded in keeping most Jews who manged to escape Europe out of the US of A.http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-government-turned-away-thousands-jewish-refugees-fearing-they-were-nazi-spies-180957324/ …

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      1. NS Dave‏ @dave1oakns 3 Sep 2017
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        FDR may have said he wanted to stay out of the war in Europe, but he knew the US would eventually be involved.

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      1. jeannine mead‏ @jeannine3161 3 Sep 2017
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        @jeannine3161 I sat on the floor as a very young girl, next to our radio listening to all of R's chats and talks. A god in our house.

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      1. Kevin Gregg‏ @KevinPaulGregg 3 Sep 2017
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        America keep out of war? We were born thru war. We are always at war. We are addicted to war. We go batty if we don't got some war going on.

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      1. Clan Boggs‏ @ClanBoggs 3 Sep 2017
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        "To understand Roosevelt’s motivations and complicity in the subsequent crimes against humanity," read: http://www.FreudsMafia.com  pg.72

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      1. rrlse‏ @priusport 3 Sep 2017
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        Disturbing how FDR backed the Vichy, then Giraud, and not DeGaulle Free French early.

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      1. Janet Runyon‏ @ajazjanet 3 Sep 2017
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Thanks Michael for keeping our history alive...you are awesome!

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      1. panhandlebuzz‏ @sandybosox 3 Sep 2017
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        How'd that work out? Not to good!

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      1. Jim Silberman‏ @jedsilb 3 Sep 2017
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        After 9-1-39, I doubt he believed it. In 1940 he passed Lend Lease, which suggests he was buying time for the US to prepare for war.

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      1. Pat taP‏ @Phill_75 3 Sep 2017
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        Narrator: "They did not."

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      1. Colin Smith‏ @irvingwood 3 Sep 2017
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        Disingenuous!FDR saw the possibilities.Axis beaten, British Empire dissolved.Who's next?Why us(US) of course.An empire paid for by US blood.

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      1. Ann Marie Buscema‏ @buscema50 3 Sep 2017
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        I remember this morning 3rd September 1939 did Northern Korea remembered that date too

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