by Dale Jenkins | Sep 21, 2026 | Published Articles
Dean Acheson believed Japan would yield. In this video adaptation of an excerpt from the World War II history book Diplomats & Admirals, Dale A. Jenkins examines Acheson’s role in the 1941 U.S. oil embargo against Japan—and how policy, personality, and one...
by Dale Jenkins | Aug 14, 2026 | Published Articles
One of the things that has always inspired me about Franklin D. Roosevelt is how he turned profound physical adversity into one of his greatest strengths: his ability to communicate. In Diplomats & Admirals, I explore the character and leadership of FDR and the...
by Dale Jenkins | Jul 28, 2026 | Featured Excerpts
In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by paralytic polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilitated and marshaled himself, despite severe pain, to press...
by Dale Jenkins | Dec 8, 2025 | Published Articles
As Pearl Harbor Remembrance Week continues, we turn from the attack itself to the man who addressed a shaken nation the following day: President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Before delivering the now-iconic “Day of Infamy” address, Roosevelt had already forged...
by Dale Jenkins | Dec 13, 2024 | Published Articles
By Dale A. Jenkins, author of Diplomats & Admirals After the German army rampaged through western Europe in 1940, President Roosevelt realized the other European countries could not stand up to the German war machine, and that the United States inevitably would be...
