| #5 You come from good stock. Appreciate you continue to carry the Banner! |
| Posted by: Large McCoy8677 2024-12-08 18:02 |
| #4 My Dad is the tall man standing in the doorway. He was a Secret Service Agent on the Presidential detail for the entire war, on the plane for the Casablanca trip, at Yalta and agent in charge at Warm Springs when FDR died. He remained on the detail for Truman for the rest of the War, traveling to Potsdam and the SF conference to establish the UN before transferring to the State Department. In 1958, he was the Chief of Security for the entire State Department and personally ran the Khrushchev visit security, where he was famed for deciding the he would not visit Disneyland. Standing behind Churchill at the Quebec Conference  |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-12-08 12:47 |
| #3 Re: Dec 7th. As usual, the UK got what they wanted with a little help from the US and the Dutch. At least Congress actually voted on this one. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-12-08 11:25 |
| #2 ..of course the next year, he'd authorized the invasion of French North Africa without warning or declaration of war even though we had open diplomatic relations with the Vichy government. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-12-08 08:03 |
| #1 President Franklin D. Roosevelt Declares War on Japan (Full Speech) | War Archives |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-12-08 05:32 |
