he was really deciding whether thomas dewey could be president. soon followed by the battle of the bulge, hitler big counterattack in belgium which turned out to be his last desperate throw of the dice militarily. roosevelt's perilous trip on the black sea for the second summit meeting with stalin and churchill leading to agreement on the united nations and soviet intervention on our side in the pacific war and crucially a compromise on poland that had little or no chance of holding, roosevelt recognized since the red army had already occupied the entire country. a few highlights. here is a sideline. by picking harry truman as his understudy, and earlier dwight eisenhower to be supreme commander in europe, both were surprised choices. fdr in effect shows not only his successor but his success of successor. all these matters were written over and over, more than if you have given rise to controversies that still can't be deemed settled but roosevelt himself came to feel, as i burrowed into my reading, to receiving many of these narratives, he was t