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dot UK UK. The telephone in the president's bedroom in the family quarters of the White House

rang in the middle of the night as Thursday, August 31st, 1939 became Friday, September 1st.

Across the Atlantic, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht, executing a war plan code-named Case White had struck Poland.

World War II was beginning in earnest.

William Bullitt, Roosevelt's ambassador to France, got the word and reached the president who took the call in bed.

Well, Bill, FDR said it's come at last. God help us all.

I'm John Meacham and this is season two of hope through history.

Episode 1, Slow Walk to War.

Americans thought this might well be yet again another European scheme to drag the United

States into a war that would kill a lot of Americans and in which we did not belong.

Only one thing holds this country from war today.

That is the rising opposition of the American people.

Where was our money going to go when we don't have money to take care of us at home?

And so the country was still on edge. God help us all. It was understandable that Roosevelt was thinking about the Almighty

for the problems the President faced seemed insuperable. The nation was strongly isolationist and fear was a common theme

Fear of entanglement, fear of sacrificing American blood and treasure for the advantage of others.

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