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How did FDR sell Lend-Lease to Americans ahead of World War II?
“[Roosevelt] compared Lend-Lease . . . to a situation where your neighbor’s house is on fire. And he doesn’t have a hose. He has no way of fighting this fire. But you do. And so you lend that hose to your neighbor so he can put out his fire,” says Lynne Olson, author of Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II.
Olson joined James M. Lindsay on The President’s Inbox podcast to discuss the history of the Lend-Lease Act of 1941 and the domestic political struggles that shaped the entry of the United States into World War II.
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