Hope, Through History: Slow Walk To War

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Audacy | Cement City Productions

Documentary, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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At the onset of World War II, Franklin Roosevelt contends with a fierce and at times virulent isolationsist movement in America while Winston Churchill pleads with President Roosevelt to join the fight against Axis forces. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sports Media is filled with an endless stream of personalities, stories, and gossip, and I'm here to cover it all.
0:08.0	I'm John Arran, Puck's Sports Correspondent, and I've been covering the media business for right around 30 years. I have a new
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0:19.0	owners boxes that run the entire sports business. Twice a week, I will bring on the smartest people I know
0:25.0	to break down the hottest topics in sports media
0:28.0	and give you a window into the inside conversations
0:31.0	that are happening throughout sports media. the best known personalities in the business, everyone from Payton Manning to Jimmy Battaro.
0:37.0	If you have designs to make the Varsity itself, you need to listen to the Varsity Podcast.
0:42.0	Don't be stuck on the JV Squad this year.
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0:47.2	so be sure to follow and listen to the Varsity Podcast,
0:50.4	a presentation of Odyssey in partnership with Puck, wherever you get your podcasts. The telephone in the president's bedroom in the family quarters of the White House
1:11.9	rang in the middle of the night as Thursday, August
1:15.0	31st, 1939 became Friday, September 1st.
1:20.5	Across the Atlantic, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht, executing a war plan codenamed Case White had
1:27.2	struck Poland.
1:29.9	World War II was beginning in earnest.
1:34.8	William Bullitt, Roosevelt's Ambassador to France, got the word and reached the President
1:40.0	who took the call in bed. Well, Bill, FDR said,
1:45.0	it's come at last.
1:47.0	God help us all.
1:49.0	I'm John Meacham and this is season 2 of Hope Through History, episode 1, slow Walk to War.
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