In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. —Franklin Delano Roosevelt It’s a Goddamned mousetrap! —Admiral James O. Richardson (describing Pearl Harbor and its narrow channel that only would allow one ship to pass through at a time) The enemy was Hitler and Japan had given us an opportunity. —Harry Hopkins, secretary of commerce under FDR (White House cabinet meeting discussion the evening of December 7, 1941)
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