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 | Mar 5, 2025 | Featured Updates, Published Articles
If Trump had been president in 1940 instead of Franklin D. Roosevelt, would he have told Winston Churchill he had no cards and instead formed an agreement with the power person in Europe, Adolf Hitler? Roosevelt, imbued with America’s foundation of human rights,...
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...
