wendell willkie said this is a matter of principle. they had a wonderful dinner the night before. roosevelt gave him a note to send to churchill. and on the roosevelts' beau she made the difference in passing and he never forgot. he incurred a practical risk and even though he died before the election he probably ruined his chances of ever holding that because what he did with a great statesmanship the kind of statesmanship we would like to see more of today. winston churchill -- churchill and roosevelt had only met once. they met at a dinner in london in 1918 during world war i. churchill never remembered the encounter. roosevelt never forgot the fact that churchill never remembered. [laughter] but church always arduously according roosevelt because he needed help the united states to survive and roosevelt was trying to give it and what he needed desperately were some world war i and destroyers to replace the votes in great britain and the english channel almost daily. it's a complicated story but they said the destroyers to britain without seeking the approval of congress that w

, kennedy agreed at the request of clare boothe luce to come to the united states and indorse wendell willkie. felix frankfurter at the same time worried about the catholic to be here said supreme court worried about the catholic book tv it takes a couple of the supreme court justices who actually knew something about the catholic vote. came down to see roosevelt and they persuaded him that only joe kennedy, a full endorsement could make the difference. .. a >> one reason is a few months ago standing where you are we do not have a tank factory at the end of world war i we had dismantled. >> that is true in the armed forces had deteriorated that they were under equipped and basically functional the entire united states army was 150 min after war was declared a fdr was trying to buy time and to arms production he knew he had to convert these factories and it took time and he had to do it he could not do it through government plants alone that had to rely from private industry because that is what happened in world war i matisse started those machines rolling in that is how we became alarmed wit