Britain through a special aid program.In a series of radio“fireside chats”to the nation,Roosevelt employed folksy analogies to plead his case,such as likening the United States to a good neighbor who lends his garden hose to the person next door whose house is entire. Nonetheless,a full year later,many Americans were still lamenting their involvement in World War 1, when-as they saw it-the United Kingdom manipulated the United States into entering the war.