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...told Americans that this is going to be a long campaign that will test both our resources and our will. "Freedom and fear are at war," he declared. "We will not tire. We will not falter, and we will not fail." And even as he spoke, the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt steamed toward the Mediterranean and points east, and more than 100 warplanes moved into position...
...Right after Pearl Harbor one of Franklin Roosevelt's officials saw the White House glowing in the bright moonlight and suggested it be painted black. The Army wanted it done in camouflage colors. FDR, who understood the power of great symbolism, ignored such nonsense and insisted the White House stay white and put up the Christmas lights for the world...
When we remember President Franklin D. Roosevelt's leadership after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, we tend to think of the famous response that he carefully dictated to his secretary, punctuation included: "Yesterday comma December 7th comma 1941 dash a date which will live in infamy..." Yet the President's leadership was most sorely tested not on the Sunday of the surprise attack or the Monday he delivered his address but in the long, difficult days that followed. Then as now, America's sense of territorial invulnerability had been shattered. Rumors swirled: the Japanese were planning to bomb...
After Pearl Harbor, symbolic acts were as significant as physical preparation for war. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt worked together to demonstrate that the war overseas would be won only by preserving American liberty at home. The week after the raid, the Secret Service suggested a list of security measures at the White House: camouflaging the building, placing machine guns on the roof, covering the skylights with sand and tin. Roosevelt rejected most of the suggestions, to show that the capital stood unbowed--much as, a century earlier, Abraham Lincoln insisted that the construction of the Capitol dome be completed...
...that Britain should not be subsumed into Europe. Secondly, Britain should not go back to pre-Thatcher levels of spending and taxation. TIME: Is it true you're obsessed with Napoleon? BLACK: Absolutely not. He was a great general, but I have more admiration for Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt. It's like all these stupid theories written about me that say I play with toy soldiers. That's a load of you know what. TIME: When can we expect Hollinger's stock to go up? BLACK: A lot of companies, such as the one you write for, have taken...