This is part of a transcript from a meeting in Morgenthau’s office on May 2nd, 1944, about the WRB’s desire to open a refugee shelter in the United States. Pehle is feeling positive, but knows they can’t get Congress to pass anything granting this permission.  Remember that: No one thinks Congress will pass a bill allowing a refugee shelter into the US. There’s a noisy faction of pseudo-historians who argue that FDR could have saved the Jews and decided not to.  The reality is that there was a Congress he had to go through to adjust anything related to immigration, and Congress was very anti any of this. It’s not an apology, and sometimes excuses are true. This is one of those times.  At the meeting, the WRB tried to convince Morgenthau that FDR needed to act and not try to go through Congress.