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...image of a collegiate FDR sitting in the basement of a final club, smoking a cigar with powerful alumni and preparing for the presidency, might strike envy in the hearts of ambitious Harvard students. But the final clubs of today don’t exercise this kind of power or importance. Sure, members of the clubs can make some alumni connections, but so can any Harvard student involved with any other organization on campus. The question is, why do people still envy them...
Earle, a former Pennsylvania Governor, former ambassador and sometime spy who tipped off Roosevelt to the V-3, was one of F.D.R.'s occasionally wild-haired espionage operatives. In Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage (Random House; 564 pages; $35), Joseph E. Persico explores--with judicious historical zest and a fine eye for detail--the hallucinatory world of snooping, concealments, betrayals and confidence games played for world-history stakes...
...Right after Pearl Harbor one of Franklin Roosevelt's officials saw the White House glowing in the bright moonlight and suggested it be painted black. The Army wanted it done in camouflage colors. FDR, who understood the power of great symbolism, ignored such nonsense and insisted the White House stay white and put up the Christmas lights for the world...
...read: Communism), he linked arms with The Greatest Generation and put himself in the continuum of leaders like F.D.R. and Churchill. But F.D.R. and Churchill had clearer military objectives than this President who, as he said, faces a more elusive enemy. The speech was really more Truman 1948 than FDR 1941. Bush sought to define a new world, to orient the work of the federal government around the central idea of defeating terrorism just as Truman and The Wise Men like Dean Acheson and Averill Harriman and George Marshall reoriented the federal government around the idea of defeating communism. They...
...read: Communism), he linked arms with The Greatest Generation and put himself in the continuum of leaders like F.D.R. and Churchill. But F.D.R. and Churchill had clearer military objectives than this President who, as he said, faces a more elusive enemy. The speech was really more Truman 1948 than FDR 1941. Bush sought to define a new world, to orient the work of the federal government around the central idea of defeating terrorism just as Truman and The Wise Men like Dean Acheson and Averill Harriman and George Marshall reoriented the federal government around the idea of defeating communism. They...