FDR and Fearlessness: How the Personal Became the Political

Huffington Post: My aunt's husband, Mr. Donovan, was a law clerk in FDR's office in NYC, part of family history when your father was the youngest of eleven. I was sitting in Cold Spring, NY where the EPA was going to clean-up the Marathon Battery heavy metal site, made the batteries for NIKE missiles, next to the historic West Point Foundry, across the Hudson River from the military academy and heard an interesting story on the radio. They had found, with great difficulty, a bit of "archeology" a bit of detective work, the recording of the lone dissenting voice against declaring war in the Congress, by a woman. She thought we might be too "gut" felt convinced of what had happened, perhaps another side of the "fear itself" equation FDR has been attributed to, perhaps out of its context. Abe Lincoln once remarked upon meeting the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" "...here's the little lady that started the war."