“I never let my right hand know what my left hand is doing.” – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt In the run-up to World War II, FDR’s penchant for playing fast and loose with the truth in pursuit of political ends spawned a climate of distrust in Washington.
By the time the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, mistrust was so rampant that people suspected the president of knowing about the impending attack, but doing nothing to stop it in order to drag the U.S. into World War II.
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