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To: aladin who wrote (74974)	2/17/2003 8:46:18 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

I was reading Charles Linbergh's diaries from the pre-War era and he constantly referenced public opinion polls. Perhaps a character trait of a pacifist? Actually, I seem to recall that Lindbergh was very much of a standard issue America firster, isolationist. I would be reluctant to trust his view of the polls. However, having said that, you may well be right. I also seem to recall from reading several books on FDR, that he felt he could do nothing on either front--Europe or the Pacific--because public opinion was isolationist. But I'm not certain of that. Would have to go consult my books and I'm a bit too lazy to do that right now. Moreover, FDR's reading of "public opinion" may have referred to very different things than we do when we refer to polls. He may well have been thinking of certain leadership groups and his ability to move things with them politically. Ah, I now see the rest of your comments about Lindbergh. That's the Lindbergh I recall from other readings I've done on the period.