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onager

(9,356 posts) Fri Dec 6, 2013, 10:07 PM Dec 2013

A date which will live in irony...

The place/event: The White House, Cabinet meeting called by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The speaker: Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy

The quote: "We've got our sources of communication in pretty good shape, and we expect within the next week to get some indication of where they are going."

The 'they:' the Japanese fleet

The date: Friday, December 5, 1941

From "No Ordinary Time - Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front In WWII" by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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A date which will live in irony... (Original Post) onager Dec 2013 OP

And he was 100% correct. krispos42 Dec 2013 #1

krispos42

(49,445 posts)

1. And he was 100% correct.

Reply to onager (Original post)

Fri Dec 6, 2013, 10:14 PM

Dec 2013

Just... not in the fashion he was thinking of.

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