Franklin Delano Roosevelt was determined to get the measure of Britain’s wartime prime minister Winston Churchill, and of Britain’s chances for survival. It was December 1940, and the President was cruising on the USS Tuscaloosa with his most trusted aide, Harry Lloyd Hopkins.
FDR was at a loss. His ambassador in London, the negative and defeatist Joseph Kennedy, had resigned.
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