Atlantic Crossing

This is such a farce! Norway was more involved than this show depicts and FDR was not a philanderer as portrayed. What really bothered me is episode 6. It is so inaccurate that it is tantamount to “fake news.” What bothers me is people will watch this and think it is even REMOTELY TRUE. It is not! Point of fact. No, President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not hold a Christmas party at the White House immediately after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.After the attack, the mood in Washington, D.C., and the nation was extremely somber and serious. On December 8, 1941, FDR addressed Congress in his famous “Day of Infamy” speech, asking for and receiving a declaration of war against Japan.However, the White House did continue with a very subdued version of the annual Christmas Tree lighting ceremony on December 24, 1941. This event was dramatically different from previous years — low-key, with no large crowds or festive atmosphere, and framed in the context of a nation at war. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who was visiting Washington at the time, joined Roosevelt and also gave remarks during the ceremony. This was part of the early coordination between the U.S. and Britain in World War **** while there was no party in the traditional sense, there was a symbolic and somber observance of Christmas — focused more on unity. They don’t even show Churchill as being at the White House at this time. This is just another reason PBS should be defunded, in my opinion.