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...economic health." That philosophy did not endear him to the New Deal, but during World War II, F.D.R. nonetheless named him special adviser to the Office of War Mobilization. In the early war years, Baruch occasionally met with Harvard President James Bryant Conant and M.I.T. President Karl Comptonon an oak bench in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House, to discuss an official report on rubber resources. That bench -facing the wrong end of an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson-became Baruch's symbol...
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