As you listen, it becomes clear that William Bullitt pushed Roosevelt into influencing Chamberlain into blundering both Britain and the US into the German war on Bolshevik Russia.

“Bullitt was born to a prominent Philadelphia family, the son of Louisa Gross (Horwitz) ^[5] and William Christian Bullitt Sr. His grandfather was John Christian Bullitt, founder of the law firm today known as Drinker Biddle & Reath.^[6] He graduated from Yale University in 1912, after having been voted “most brilliant” in his class. He briefly attended Harvard Law School but dropped out on the death of his father in 1914. At Yale, he was a member of Scroll and Key.”

“Freedom Betrayed is the culmination of an extraordinary literary project launched by Herbert Hoover during World War II: a memoir that evolved into a comprehensive critique of U.S. foreign policy under President Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover wanted his tome to be the definitive indictment of what he called the “lost statesmanship” of his presidential successor.

Made available to scholars and others for the first time in 2011, nearly half a century after Hoover’s death, the book was edited by George H. Nash. In his lecture, Dr. Nash will tell the story and assess the significance of this remarkable volume that Hoover called his “Magnum Opus” and “will and testament” to the American people. The Center for Presidential History: http://www.smu.edu/CPH”