7. December 1941, now known as Pearl Harbor day came, the country remained hopeful for peace. President Franklin Roosevelt responded to the intense day with a quiet death, "his wife Eleanor to use later.
7. December 1941, clear and cold in Washington. The atmosphere in the capital of the nation was troubled and gloomy as the rest of the country. France and the UK had fallen by the Nazis. German tanks were pounding on the gates of Moscow. The United States came to extend his bill - by voting. He said the tribe, wrote legendary Monitor correspondent Richard Strout. He had just returned from a tour of the mention of the country, where he was a people living with the hope of peace while the rest of the world war has been returned.
The following paragraph"We were all very matter-of-fact December 7, he wrote on the 40th anniversary of that fateful day.
At the White House, Eleanor Roosevelt hosted a luncheon. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first study in the oval to the White House, saw his close friend and adviser Harry L. Hopkins. At lunch 01.40 clock was interrupted by a phone call from Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. He said that FDR had said the Navy made a radio broadcast from Honolulu to Pearl Harbor was attacked obtained, and that it "is not a drill."
Hopkins thought it possible that all this was a maim. Roosevelt did not. He said that the report is true, as it would be the type of attack, select Japanese. A few minutes later, Admiral Harold Stark, chief of naval operations, called and confirmed the news. Pearl Harbor was on fire.
Eleanor was back in his own study, through her husband. A look inside told him something was wrong, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said in "No Ordinary Time," his history of marriage Roosevelt and World War II home front.
The secretaries were all there. Military aid were occupied. All phones have been busy.
How FDR to react to the sudden outbreak of war? It was "deadly quiet," Eleanor recalled later, according to Goodwin's book.
"He was very calm. His reaction was definitely to be always calm. If it was something that was bad, it was just a bit like an iceberg, and there was never any emotion, the show license, was "Eleanor said later.
Today, the result of the Second World War for the United States may appear to be predetermined. It has an arc of the story of great cohesion and drama, treachery, darkness, struggle and victory. But the afternoon of December 7 at the beginning of winter it's not like a game with a purpose known seemed. FDR knew full well the seriousness of the situation. When he convened a cabinet meeting later day, he told the assembled officials that would happen in this most important meeting in Washington since 1861, beginning of civil war.
Conspiracy theorists argue that Roosevelt's silence was the result of Providence. He knew Pearl Harbor was coming and it happened, they say. Or he tricked the Japanese into the attack as a way to attract more U.S. in the global conflict.
All these decades later, "no document or credible witness has been found that prove a claim. Most researchers believe Pearl Harbor failed as a result of information, intelligence failures and the esteem of itself, "said FDR Presidential Library analysis of relevant documents [PDF].
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