this is a fight for American values. Ultimately, when your sons are dying in the trenches, you want to know that it's more than a fight for American values. The same would go for World War II, Demetrius. Especially when I began to dig into the 1930s, I was quite surprised by the public image of Roosevelt that exists today in the sense that, yes, he was a great wartime hero. He pulled off the new deal. Over the course of the 1930s, he was right in the midst of the isolationist mainstream, guiding one piece of neutrality law after another. This was real tight neutrality. This basically said that the United States could do no business with any belligerent because we don't want to run the risk that what took us into World War I would happen again. He then changes his mind in 1939 after the fall of most of Western Europe. He does so because he thinks that if the Nazis succeed in taking Britain, they will be powerful enough to come to the Western Hemisphere. That's when he convinces Congress (29/33)
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