FDR did, however, sack Admiral after Admiral after Admiral, etc. until he found one willing to relocate the Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor.
It was FDR’s decision to relocate the fleet that created the opportunity for the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor.
That is more likely a political decision versus a military one...but I am not prepared to make the leap to FDR knew based on that.
It can be said that having the vessels forward based there shortened certain logistical tails considerably (it certainly did in the war), so there is at least an argument there.
I have read a few things over the years about it, some interesting, but none compelling enough (to me, at least)
I will say that Sen. McCarthy’s ghostwritten book “America’s Retreat from Victory-The Story of George Catlett Marshall” (which I have a copy of) has some interesting pieces in it that make you wonder, but not much further.