 | Howard Jones - 2001 - 572 strani
...boy to fight in any European war." Roosevelt retaliated in Chapter 7 Boston with the assurance that "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." His statement raised serious questions, however, because it did not rule out war in the event... | |
 | John Milton Cooper - 2001 - 476 strani
...obfuscate issues rather than clarify them. He did that most notoriously in his 1940 election eve assurance, "I have said this before but I shall say it again...Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars."56 Given the persistence of isolationist sentiment and broader public repugnance toward intervention... | |
 | Yanek Mieczkowski - 2001 - 164 strani
...days before the election, the president gave an emphatic rejoinder to Willkie's most strident charge: "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." Roosevelt coasted to another easy victory. But in 1936, he had won 60.8 percent of the vote;... | |
 | Yanek Mieczkowski - 2001 - 164 strani
...before the election, the president gave an emphatic rejoinder to Willkie's most strident charge: "1 have said this before, but I shall say it again and...Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." Roosevelt coasted to another easy victory. But in 1936, he had won 60.8 percent of the rate;... | |
 | Alexander DeConde - 2000 - 404 strani
..."are following the road to peace." Seven days later in Boston he told American mothers and fathers, "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." He later rationalized this commitment, to himself as to others, by saying "If we're attacked... | |
 | Andrew Carroll - 2008 - 518 strani
...were adamantly opposed to going to war, and Roosevelt, months away from an election, assured parents: "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. " Everything changed on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. As droves of low-flying planes approached... | |
 | A. E. Hotchner - 2002 - 143 strani
...years of the Depression, which was just tapering off), and President Roosevelt himself had assured us, "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." So despite the fact that the Nazis had already conquered Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark,... | |
 | Rick Atkinson - 2002 - 748 strani
...of homeland defense. Many preferred to heed President Roosevelt, who had promised a crowd in Boston, "I have said this before but I shall say it again...and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into foreign wars." Newspaper editorials across the Midwest caught the same spirit of denial. "World War... | |
 | Sidney Lens - 2003 - 484 strani
...land. . . ." Speaking at Boston during that campaign, Roosevelt repeated a theme he referred to often: "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. . . . The purpose of our defense is defense." In the light of what happened subsequently some... | |
 | Justus D. Doenecke - 2003 - 582 strani
...continually stressing his peace goals. On 30 October, for example, the president had told a Boston rally, "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars."139 Even now, historians differ on the role foreign policy played in the election.140 Certainly... | |
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I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. 
