Transcription: He was just as impatient with the administration's isolationist, pacifist views. He yearned to get into the fight. Perhaps he could hear the bugles at San Juan, but his request was denied. He was too valuable where he was. Finally, in the summer of 1918, FDR was dispatched to Europe on official business. He toured the front whenever he could and came under fire several times. Years later, when he recounted his adventures, Many trips aboard destroyers became dramatic encounters with German submarines and a shot he fired from a French cannon came to land squarely on a German held railway positio ...
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