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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, ....
Her reign. and she was speaking, i think, with some of the wisdom of the ages, which is, these institutions matter, this relationship matters, it ebbs and flows, unquestionably. it ebbed and flowed in realtime. let s not be sentimental. one of the fascinating things about giving the atlantic charter is the atlantic charter is kind of a noble thing in memory. it was essentially a press release that was put out after roosevelt and churchill met secretly at sea in august of 1941. and it was really churchill s courtship of roosevelt. because world war ii began for the british on september 1st september 3rd, 1939, when hitler invades poland. we didn t declare war on nazi germany until nazi germany declared war on us. pearl harbor happened, and it took five days before we got into the war against germany. and after the atlantic charter was put out, which was this statement of principles, ....
Last book. it was sung by winston churchill and franklin roosevelt in august of 1941 when they were meeting secretly at sea to plan how to defeat tyranny. it was was sung at president kennedy s services. i remember daniel patrick remembering that his central memory of those terrible days in november was that everyone in washington suddenly knew all the words to eternal father, strong to save, but when you the other thing as this unfolds and when the judge or preacher rises to give the homily in the pulpit, remember, that s called the can berry pulpit. where martin luther king delivered the final sermon on the same day linden johnson announced and decided to leave the presidential race. ....