the president went out to casablanca in early 1943 to decide on how best the allies should defeat nazi germany. the americans had overwhelmed e morocco and algeria. the president met churchill in casablanca but made quite sure he met the moroccan leaders at the time. they wanted the united states to win the war and then restore their empire. that s not how fdr saw the future. you point out at the end of that dinner he has a private conversation with his son. he says i m going to work with all the strength in my body to ensure that when this war is over, we don t just give back the colonies to the british and french because he saw that as
to cassia blanka in early 1943 to decide on how best the allies should defeat nazi americans had overwhelmed morocco and algeria, and the president met churchill in casablanca but made quite sure that he met the moroccan leaders of the time and the vichy french were furious with him. they wanted the united states to win the war and then restore their empire. well, that s not how fdr saw the future. you point out at the end of that dinner, he has a private conversation with his son, and he says, i m going to work with all the strength in my body to ensure that when this war is over, we don t just give back the colonies to the british and french because he saw that as the problem in the first place.
looked very different because most very practical, pragmatic. roosevelt was deeply idealistic about how he wanted the post world war to look. the president was an anti- anti-colonialist. the two great leaders were arguing about the future. churchill is the prime minister of this vast, british, ancient empire and the president looking ahead to how these countries would achieve self-determination after the war. you talk about when he was at casablanca and he starts telling about the world he imagines. he s describing morocco was a french colony. tell that story.
trump will go for his first foreign summit, but we can be pretty sure it will be an easy flight in the comfort of air force one. that is in great contrast to franklin roosevelt s trip to meet churchill at a summit in casablanca in 1943. it was a long train ride to miami, a 10-hour flight to trinid trinidad, a 9-hour flight to brazil and a 19 hour-flight and another flight to casablanca. all this for man who was paralyzed, had a failing heart and not gotten on plane since 1932. why did he do this? it s all explored in a book that explains how the current world order, the one that s been keeping the peace in the world for 70 years was built by franklin roosevelt. it s that world order that trump sometimes seen intent to