Willkie at least had no doubt what had defeated him. Listening to FDR's Boston speech on the radio ("I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars") he burst out: "That hypocritical son of a bitch! This is going to beat me." https://books.google.com/books?id=eJA3BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA596
(Note that in the Boston speech, FDR even omitted his usual qualifier "unless we are attacked." He later justified this--perhaps a bit disingenuously--by saying that if someone attacks us, then it isn't a foreign war...)
(Note that in the Boston speech, FDR even omitted his usual qualifier "unless we are attacked." He later justified this--perhaps a bit disingenuously--by saying that if someone attacks us, then it isn't a foreign war...)