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#180 – Jeremi Suri: History of American Power
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Great Leaders Don't Invent the Words
I think FDR had a sense of what was coming, not quite the enormity of what Hitler was doing. I also lost relatives in the Holocaust. And part of that was beyond the imagination of human beings. He tried to play, not pacify, but basically do diplomacy and let Germany do Germany,. Let Europe do Europe, focus on America. There's no doubt by 1944, U.S. could have bombed airliners or taken out key German targets. But he didn't want to jeopardize an isolationist public.
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