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willing to go, but on this day december 7th, everything changed. >> uh-huh. >> it did. you know, that night, churchill heard the news on the bbc on a birthday dinner at checkers and immediately wanted to declare war on japan. the american envoy that said you can't declare war on a radio broadcast but there was phone call that night between roosevelt and churchill and churchill said, is it true, mr. president? and roosevelt said, it's true, we're all in the same boat now. and you could argue we, in fact had been in the same boat since december 1939 when hitler invaded poland, but isolationism in america was so strong, so ambient, you could feel it, that even after that great secret conference in august of 1941, fdr meets churchill. they issue the atlantic charter,