stand. one of roosevelt s top aids wrote a memo calling a bombing and said even if we kill a few of them in a process, many will escape. he said they re all going to die in the gas chambers and miss placed if we don t do something. one other thing is quiet significant. henry, who is roosevelt s best friend and influential secretary of treasury wrote the hardest hit memo ever written in american history to roosevelt in which he talk ed about the government s act we essence. after he wrote it the two met in the white house and roosevelt set up the war refugee board which was designed to do nothing but help the jews. vivid and important. the book is 1944 fdr and the year that changed history. jay winik, thank you so much. thank you for writing it. thank you, jay. coming up, there s been a lot of