For a long time the official explanation of Pearl Harbor was that we were slugged without warning when we were innocently going about our business. Slugged we were, and there is no need to palliate the Japanese behavior. But to say that we were slugged without warning is a radical distortion of the truth; Roosevelt, the Chief Executive of the nation and Commander in Chief of its Army and Navy, knew in advance that the Japanese were going to attack us. There is even ground for suspicion that he elected to bring the crisis to a head when it came.

(LIFE magazine, Sept.24 1945 edition, p110)

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