re: If you were POTUS in December 1941

If I am President on December 6, Japan is in a heap of trouble. I'd have subs with working torpedoes trying to get in licks on that carrier fleet of theirs and my planes ready for their attack.

Not to mention those antique battleships well to the southeast of Pearl out of carrier aircraft range but ready to storm back and help repel an invasion attempt. I don't let Halsey's carriers anywhere near that Japanese armada. I swing them southeast of Pearl out of range of the Japanese planes but in range to help defend Pearl.

Mac Arthur gets orders that he obeys or gets ordered home. Willoughby and that crew gets fired anyway. Disperse your aircraft and prepare for invasion. Stockpile your supplies and food on Bataan as planned and not near the beaches. Fight to the last damned bullet, might as well as the Japanese will kill you pretty much anyway.

Advise Churchill to fire Percival in Singapore if he wishes to hold it. Do NOT sortie Prince of Wales and Repulse, but use them as artillery. Get as many aircraft to Singapore as you can' Absolutely fortify the land sided approaches as heavily and as soon as possible. Singapore can be held. Withdraw troops from Malaya into Singapore, supplies everything.