Watching Darkness Fall Quotes

“title nor the institutional support that accompanies the position today, Harry Hopkins was America’s first national security adviser. Sometimes Roosevelt’s ambassadors and State Department advisers failed to grasp the significance of important events and sometimes they gave poor advice, but they often informed the president and helped shape his thinking. In the end, of course, Franklin Roosevelt, alone, made historic decisions about American engagement and leadership in a volatile world. As he told Wendell Willkie after the election in 1940, “Some day you may well be sitting here where I am now as president of the United States … you’ll learn what a lonely job this is.”
― David McKean, Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler

“Sometimes Roosevelt’s ambassadors and State Department advisers failed to grasp the significance of important events and sometimes they gave poor advice, but they often informed the president and helped shape his thinking. In the end, of course, Franklin Roosevelt, alone, made historic decisions about American engagement and leadership in a volatile world. As he told Wendell Willkie after the election in 1940, “Some day you may well be sitting here where I am now as president of the United States … you’ll learn what a lonely job this is.”
― David McKean, Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler

“blind obedience and unquestioning discipline.”
― David McKean, Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler