With this two-volume Deception, Intrigue, and the Road to War, Douglas Horne of Inside the ARRB has created the definitive study of FDR and the road to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Did FDR have foreknowledge? Did American and British intelligence break the Japanese codes? What did those codes reveal? What were the roles of Cordell Hull, George Marshall, and Harry … [Read more...]
MWN Episode 007 – FDR and the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Douglas Horne, author of the two-volume Deception, Intrigue, and the Road to War, joins S.T. Patrick to discuss FDR's foreknowledge of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Douglas P. Horne grew up in a military family---his father was in the Marine Corps---and graduated cum laude from The Ohio State University with a B.A. in History in 1974. He … [Read more...]
FDR Tinkered with the Turkey
Thanksgiving is legally celebrated in America on the fourth Thursday in November. President Franklin D. Roosevelt tinkered with the date of Thanksgiving by moving it up one week. It was returned to its rightful place on the calendar two years later when FDR admitted that his micro-tinkering was once again unwanted and unneeded by a majority of Americans. … [Read more...]