FDR in W.W. I
(Liberty Magazine, 1942)
Between the years 1913 through 1920, FDR served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Josephus Daniels:
“Roosevelt had not been in office a month before he gave out a public statement urging a more adequate navy:”
“‘The navy is not fit for war. We have today only sixteen ships we can send effectively against the first line of the enemy.'”