A meeting between the U. S. and Britain to discuss how the war began and how it would end, led some to believe FDR was trying to get the U. S. into WWII

Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term as governor of New York when he was elected as the nation's 32nd president in 1932. ... Reelected by comfortable margins in 1936, 1940 and 1944, FDR led the United States from isolationism to victory over Nazi Germany and its allies in World War II.

After leading the United States through nearly a decade of Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took on the role of Commander-in-Chief when the United States entered the Second World War.