Transcription: The shooting war broke out in May of 1940. The night German fire and steel rolled across much of Western Europe, Roosevelt asked his old friend and advisor, Harry Hopkins, to come to dinner. Hopkins had been a very sick man in the two years before that. He'd had cancer, he'd had much of his stomach removed for the cancer, and had only been working part-time as Secretary of Commerce. But on that night of tension, Roosevelt somehow harkened back to the earlier relationship they had had before Hopkins' illness asked him to come for dinner and then somehow thinking it was for Harry's good but prob ...
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