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Subject: [Leica] Pictures of the attack on Pearl Harbor
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:18:22 -0500

> Larry, Mark
> What the attack did was to eliminate the republican opposition in
> Congress to declaring war on Japan and Germany.
> Up to that point Roosevelt had had an awful time summoning enough
> votes to just get lend lease passed so that Britain
> could have the materiel to hang on until American attitudes had
> changed enough that American would come into the war.
> It was a very close thing!
> Cheers
> Howard (who reads political history for fun)


But Roosevelt  was able to summon enough votes to get an oil and metals
embargo on Japan which is what brought them to war against us in the first
place.

[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner





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