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Clifford May in a piece in the National Review Online actually put this paragraph under his byline.....

President Roosevelt waited until after World War II to put in place a commission to investigate what mistakes led to Pearl Harbor. That was a wise move, but then Roosevelt did not face the kind of hyper-partisanship that plagues America these days. (Washington Post columnist David Broder recently pointed out that when FDR ran for reelection during World War II, he emphasized his record as a war leader. Broder might have added that FDR's Republican opponent, Thomas Dewey, declined to criticize the president in regard to foreign policy during a time of war. It's almost hard to believe that there was a time when Americans knew the difference between their foreign enemies and their political adversaries.)

#1. Roosevelt issued an executive order on December 18, 1941 - 7 days after Pearl Harbor - establishing a commission to investigate what happened leading up to Pearl Harbor.

#2. Dewey, in his 1944 campaign against Roosevelt, attacked him for being soft on communists at home and for failing the troops abroad.

#3. Americans know the difference between our foreign enemies and our political adversaries...and being the enemy of my enemy does NOT make you my friend. That's a mistake Republican administrations have been making for decades.

#4. Roosevelt died April 12, 1945. Truman ended the war.