# Eleanor hates war, James hates war a derisive reference to a statement made by Franklin Delano Roosevelt (thirty-second president of the US from 1933 to 1945) in a speech he made in 1936: "I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounds. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen two hundred limping men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of one thousand that went forward 24 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war." On December 7, 1941, Congress, at the request of President Roosevelt, declared war on Japan entering the United States into World War II. Eleanor was the wife of Franklin Roosevelt, and James was his father.