...write into any contemplated legislation the substance of the President's October 30, 1940, promise: I have said this before, but I shall say it again...Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. I thank you. (Witness excused.) The CHAIRMAN. Has Mr. Kyle come in? (No response.) The CHAIRMAN....

...write into any contemplated legislation the substance of the President's October 30, 1940, promise: I have said this before, but I shall say it again...Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars. I thank you. (Witness excused.) The CHAIRMAN. Has Mr. Kyle come in? (No response.) The CHAIRMAN....

...hroughout that year of training, there will be constant promotion of their Ith and their well-being. nd while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more irance. have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again : our boys are not •going...

...1940 — "We are arming ourselves not for any foreign war. * * * " :. 50 October 30, 1940 — "And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. * * *"..' 51 Rules: Head of departments can suppress anything and everything that the Board seeks to...

...23, 1940 — "We are arming ourselves not for any foreign war. * * * " I 50 October 30, 1940 — "And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. * * *" 51 Rules: Head of departments can suppress anything and everything that the Board seeks to classify...

...Texas." He won the election. Roosevelt flll-flmericon Presidential Bonus Chapter ' DUMBEST QUOTES « "I have said this before, but I shall say it again...Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." (FDR in 1940, shortly before committing the US to World War II) "I think that if I give [Russia's...

...the president remained in office. Roosevelt's response, directed to anxious parents, was unwavering: "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." Roosevelt was also restricted by the...

...to 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...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...

...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;...

...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...