[excerpts from a long rant about his dad and Charles Lindbergh]
Roosevelt tried to demonize Lindbergh because he spoke the truth when he named three groups of war-provocateurs. If Americans had acted on the advice of Lindbergh and America First, they could have kept hundreds of thousands of their most valuable men alive at home instead of being killed on other continents in a war engineered to make the world safe for Communists.

In an age when Big Lies are commonly asserted as truth, Americans are still told by their government and the mass communications industry that Lindbergh was a “racist”, “isolationist”, and “Nazi sympathizer”. For which groups is name-calling standard operating procedure? Communists and “Liberals”. The truth is of course quite different. Observe that a man who advised Americans to mind their own business at home instead of get dragged into international adventurism is painted as a Bad Man — whereas men whose policies led to the death of thousands of American men and thousands of Japanese civilians (in 1945) are painted as Great Men. Even those who profess admiration for Lindbergh the pilot will accommodate claims that there was something wrong in his advocacy of self-defense for Americans instead of self-immolation. Such is the power of decades of propaganda and the credulity of people who are willing to be deceived.

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Like most other Americans in those years, my father probably looked upon FDR the way the mass propaganda industry painted him: As a kindly, honorable man and president. I doubt my father would have believed that radio and newspapers would assert or rubber-stamp lies, or that Roosevelt would lie both about Lindbergh and about a “surprise” Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as an excuse for dragging Americans into the war. I do not know whether my father could have imagined evil on that scale.