President Roosevelt an unusually hard to figure out us President. He was a hero in the great depression, if he wasn't achieving things, it wasn't for lack of trying. Conservative americans often saw roosevelt as damn near socialists. There is a before franklin roosevelt and after franklin roosesvelt america.
Deep themes run through this show, with allegations of Japanese war crimes and atrocities in China at the start leading to eerily familiar, almost modern questions over how the world should respond. And then Dec 7, 1941 arrives...