and trust fund
Roosevelt, Elliott (son)
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
administrative style of
as assistant secretary of navy
and cabinet war briefing
and calmness/rage/deadly calm
character of
childhood of
and cocaine, medical use of
and Congress, war address to
and congressional leaders, address to
and deception
education of
extramarital affair of
friendships of
inner motives of
and mother, relationship with
and news, control of
as own secretary of state
photographs of
and polio
and polio, and character, new depth to
and polio, and daily ritual
and polio, and deception, propensity for
and polio, and limited mobility
and polio, and therapy
and polio, and walking, method of (see also Roosevelt, James: as FDR’s walking aide)
and polio, and wheelchair, use of
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (continued)
and polio, physical burden of
and racial prejudice
radio messages of
and sinus condition
sons of, in military
and surrogate wife
temperament of
and third term
and trust fund
as vice presidential nominee
Roosevelt, Franklin Jr. (son)
Roosevelt, James (father)
Roosevelt, James (son)
as FDR’s walking aide
as marine
and Pearl Harbor, attack on
Roosevelt, John (son)
Roosevelt, Sara (mother)
death of
Roosevelt, Theodore (cousin)
Rosenberg, Alfred
Rosenthal, Harold
Rostrum, traveling speaking, and White House security
Rumelt, Ruth Jane
Rumor. See Misinformation and rumors
Russia
and nonaggression pact
Sabotage, fear of
Safe houses, and White House security
San Francisco Naval Station
Sandburg, Carl
Schulz, Lester
Secret Service
and presidential protection
and weapons
and White House security report
See also White House security
Security. See Secret Service
Selective Service Act
Self-censorship
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate Joint Resolution
September 11 attack
Sevareid, Eric
Shanghai
Sherwood, Robert
and Japanese target, speculation about
Shield, protective, and White House security
Shih, Hu
Short, Walter
and misinformation and rumors
and Pearl Harbor, as citadel
Siberia
Singapore
Sinnott, Joe
Smith, Alfred E.
Smith, Merriman
Soviet Union
Spain
Spanish-American War
Stalin, Joseph
Stark, Harold “Betty,”
and damage reports
and FDR’s war address
and fourteen-part Japanese message
and Japanese invasion, fear of
and Pearl Harbor, attack on, naval officials’ announcement of
and warning message
Starling, Edmund
Steel exports
Steel shield, and White House security
Stimson, Henry
and cabinet war briefing
and China
and congressional leaders, FDR’s address to
and damage report
and Japanese Americans
and Japan’s target, speculation about
and oil embargo
and Pearl Harbor, attack on, naval officials’ announcement of
as secretary of war
Stimson Doctrine
Supreme Court
Surprise, element of
and Philippines
Swanson, Irving
Taft, Robert
Taft, William Howard
Telephone, and reports of Pearl Harbor, attack on. See also News reports
Television, and reports of Pearl Harbor, attack on. See also News reports
Thailand
Thomas, Elmer
Thomas, Norman
Tojo, Hideki
Torpedoes
Traveling speaking rostrum, and White House security
Treasury Department
and bomb shelter
and Japanese Americans
Tripartite Pact
Trout, Robert
Tugwell, Rexford Guy
Tully, Grace
and damage reports
and FDR’s radio messages
and Pearl Harbor, attack on, naval officials’ announcement of
Turner, Kelly
Underground tunnel, and White House security
United Mine Workers strike
United Press
United States
declaration of war against
and declaration of war against Japan
and Hitler
and Mussolini
during World War I
Urrutia, Enrique Jr.
U.S. Army Forces in the Far East
USS Arizona
USS California
USS Greer
USS Helena
USS Kearny
USS Maine
USS Nevada
USS Oglala
USS Oklahoma
USS Panay
USS Pennsylvania
USS Raleigh
USS Reuben James
USS Tennessee
USS Utah
USS West Virginia
Valet. See Prettyman, Arthur
Vandenberg, Arthur
Versailles, Treaty of
Visitors, to White House
Wake Island
Walker, Frank
Wallace, Henry
War Department
War resolution, passage of
Warm Springs, Georgia
Warner, Albert
Weapons, of Secret Service
Welles, Orson
Welles, Sumner
West, J. B.
West Coast
Wheeler Field
White, William Allen
White House correspondents
White House identification
White House physician
White House press office
White House security
and air attack
and alarm system
and bomb shelter
changes in
and East Wing
and Japanese Americans
and Morgenthau
and outside barriers
and underground tunnel
and visitors
and Wilson administration
See also Presidential protection; Secret Service
White House security report
White House Sunday-evening dinners
Wickard, Claude
Wilkie, Wendell
Wilson, Frank
Wilson, Woodrow
and declaration of war
and League of Nations
Wilson, Mrs. Woodrow
Wilson administration
Winant, John G. “Gil,”
Winslow, Lorenzo
World War I
and declaration of war
World War II
beginning of
cost of
and postwar world, transformation of
Yale University
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Gillon, Steven M.
Pearl Harbor : FDR leads the Nation into war / Steven M. Gillon.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-0-465-02807-8
1. Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941. 2. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882–1945. 3. World War, 1939–1945—United States. I. Title.
D767.92.G55 2011
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