I’ll tell you, I wish it was true. I’m not fan of FDR. His kowtowing to the Soviets caused the enslavement of all of Eastern Europe for almost 50 years. His economic policies were terrible and some of those decisions we are still paying for today. If there was any real evidence of malfeasance on the part of FDR I’d be the first to be shouting it from the rooftops. What I’ve found instead is that there is a whole litany of mistakes across the entire chain of command along with the procedural defects in how we handled intelligence and how we coordinated between the services that left us open to just such an attack.
I totally agree with you. My Dad fought in the Pacific theatre during WWII and he spoke less about FDR than his own experiences - and those were rare instances as it was.
My Dad was no fan of FDR - on the foreign front, but especially his domestic policies.