Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20171208:00:59:00
President roosevelt called it a day that would live in infamy. it allowed us to hold the moral high ground throughout the war in the pacific. in 1962 when america faced the most climactic moment of the cold war, when the russians put offensive nuclear weapons in cuba, robert kennedy wanted america to keep the high ground, not to become like the empire of japan in december of 1941. quote, for 175 years we had not been that kind of country, he argued. a sneak attack was not in our tradition. thousands of cubans would be killed without warning and a lot of russians too. he argued for a different ...