OPINION: Pearl Harbor Day One For Which Franklin Delano Roosevelt Shoulders Infamy

dailycaller.com ^ | 12/7/2018 | Daniel Oliver

[rktman]

On Dec. 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan bombed the U.S. Pacific Fleet which was stationed in Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. In addressing Congress the next day, President Roosevelt called it “a date which will live in infamy.”

But Roosevelt’s reputation should live in infamy too. The line that Roosevelt enthusiasts and left-wing historians have peddled for so many years is that the attack was a complete surprise.

Here’s a sample from The American Pageant, a typical left-wing American history textbook widely used in American high schools:

Officials in Washington, having “cracked” the top-secret code of the Japanese, knew that Tokyo’s decision was for war … Roosevelt, misled by Japanese ship movements in the Far East, evidently expected the blow to fall on British Malaya or on the Philippines. No one in high authority in Washington seems to have believed that the Japanese were either strong enough or foolhardy enough to strike Hawaii.

That’s the left’s version, and it’s in line with the rest of the “fake history” they want American high school students to learn. The Education and Research Institute (ERI — of which I am chairman) has written a critique of The American Pageant, which tells a more accurate story about Pearl Harbor and scores of other events in American history.

[jamaksin]

Citations from Congressional Hearings on Pearl Harbor, perhaps helpful for you:

37PHA1062-1063 - What means CI, RI, and "tranlation this day" ... and

Exhibit No. 151 - exchange technical information and translations is what?

Thanks.

P.S., Also suggest quick scan:

Provocation and Angst: FDR, Japan, Pearl Harbor, and the Entry into War in the Pacific, Burtness and Ober, The Hawaiian Journal of History, Volume 51 (2017), pages 91-114

[no-to-illegals]

Think you may have the wrong person. I’m a Truman person though

[jamaksin]

Then, another perspective - FYI:

Did a Soviet Merchant Ship Encounter the Pearl Harbor Strike Force?

Marty Bollinger, Naval War College Review (NWCR), Autumn 2007, pages 93-110. Yup, from almost a dozen years ago.