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...tapping of telephone conversations has long been recognized as a security threat, and the rise in microwave and satellite transmission of conversations has made electronic eavesdropping easier than ever. Yet even though all Presidents since Franklin Roosevelt have conducted much of their business over secure, or scrambled, phone lines, the U.S. has been bewilderingly slow in dealing with another potentially enormous security problem: most Government and business officials daily discuss sensitive matters over ordinary, unsecured equipment...
...philosophical mastery of Reagan's presidency has Included most knee-jerk liberal minds. The president's policies actually follow the legacies of the two most visionary leaders of this century: Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and John I. Kennedy...
...domestic affairs, Reagan has engineered a dramatic Keynesian revival of the economy by returning to the Rooseveltian policies that pulled America out of the Great Depression. Scholars chastised Roosevelt for the deficit spending of his Administration, but the national debt he created proved to be trivial compared to its benefits to most Americans, Reagan, too, has become an accomplished Keynesian president. The spectacular recent performance of the economy shows that deficit spending remains a vital economic tool...
...EXCERPT Roosevelt to Churchill, March 3,1944: 'I am having the oil question studied by the Department of State and my oil experts, but please do accept my assurances that we are not making sheep's eyes at your oilfields in Iraq or Iran...
Churchill to Roosevelt, March 4, 1944: 'Thank you very much for your assurances about no sheep's eyes at our oilfields at Iran and Iraq. Let me reciprocate by giving you the fullest assurance that we have no thought of trying to horn in upon your interests or property in Saudi Arabia. My position on this, as in all matters, is that Great Britain seeks no advantage, territorial or otherwise, as the result of the war. On the other hand she will not be deprived of anything which rightly belongs to her after having given her best services...