The America First movement, whose most notable member was Charles Lindbergh, clearly did not want to get into WWII.  I just discovered some other participants:  "The AFC was established on September 4, 1940, by Yale Law School student R. Douglas Stuart, Jr. (heir to the Quaker Oats fortune), along with other students, including future President Gerald Ford, future Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver, and future U.S. Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart. Future President John F. Kennedy contributed $100, along with a note saying "What you all are doing is vital." At its peak, America First claimed 800,000 dues-paying members in 450 chapters, located mostly in a 300-mile radius of Chicago."  I knew that Kennedy's father opposed Roosevelt's pre-1941 involvement in the War.  That's why he got fired as Ambassador to England.  The Greatest Generation, including Kennedy, found their way to War after Pearl Harbor, of course.

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