...American lives were lost in a submarine attack on the USS Kearny, The "shooting," the President said, "has started. And history has recorded who fired the first shot." " In November the neutrality act was amended as the President and the Secretary of State had recommended,...

...STENGEL, baseball manager (The Gospel According to Casey, p. 9) "... the shooting has started . . . history has recorded who fired the first shot. In the long run, however, all that will matter is who fires the last shot." FRANKUN D RooSEVELT, October 27, 1941, following attacks by German U-boats on...

...wait for an act of war on our part. (ADDRESS AFTER A GERMAN NAVY ATTACK ON A US DESTROYER, 10/27/41) We have wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting...history has recorded who fired the first shot.... America has been attacked. The USS Kearny is not just a Navy ship. She belongs to every man, woman,...

...Kearny, was attacked and damaged by a German submarine. On October 27 the president told the country: "We have wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting...fired the first shot. In the long run, however, all 130Fred I. Greenstein, ed., Leadership in the Modern Presidency (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University...

...eleven men and inflicting heavy damage on the vessel. Ten days later Roosevelt indignantly declared that "we have wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting...And history has recorded who fired the first shot." Roosevelt did not mention that the Kearney, like the Greer, had been in hot pursuit of the German submarine...

...was attacked and hit on October 17. Eleven brave and loyal men of our Navy were killed by the Nazis. We have wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting...all that will matter is who fired the last shot— ... I have in my possession a secret map made in Germany by Hitler's government, by the planners of...

...incident. At a Navy Day celebration in the national capital on October 27 FDR's deceit was at its worst: We have wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting...however, all that will matter is who fired the last shot. American has been attacked. The USS Kearney is not just a Navy ship. She belongs to every man, woman,...

...and little children use that kind of vocabulary in an obvious attempt to hide guilt. But presidents? We have wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting...And history has recorded who fired the first shot. He was right about the last. History has recorded who fired the first shot - unless depth charges don't...

...the occasion for a notably fiery address by the President, his most outspoken before Pearl Harbor. 'We have wished to avoid shooting. But the shooting...And history has recorded who fired the first shot,' he began. 'America has been attacked.' Continuing in this vein, he claimed: 'Hitler's torpedo was directed...