[gcruse]

She believed that Roosevelt had deliberately provoked the attack on Pearl Harbor.

By trying to isolate and shut down Japan's ability to get vital resources, a case could be made for that.  More damningly, though...

Thomas Dewey (Republican candidate for President in 1944) tried to turn it into a campaign issue; he and several Republican senators claimed that "certain Japanese codes before Pearl Harbor" had been cracked, and that FDR "knew what was happening before Pearl Harbor, and instead of being re-elected he ought to be impeached."

[LifeTrek]

Your right, and many codes were discovered, weather there was an actual awareness of the upcoming attack is still unknown.

FDR often told his Cabinet, prior to December 7, 1941, that we were at war and that he wanted them to behave as such. The provocation was designed to push the Japanese to the edge or over in an attempt to slow or stop the atrocities that were being raged on China and to slow their agressive spread through the Pacific.

That doesn't mean we weren't already embroiled in a World War.
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