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THE PRESIDENCY: Misusing the White House Machine

One of the finest machines ever devised by man is the White House and those institutions and individuals who are called into close orbit around it. It has been the creative center for our way of life. And for those lucky enough to be summoned to serve, it has been an exhilaration unequaled by anything else.

James Rowe, who was one of Franklin Roosevelt's bright young men, still recalls with profound satisfaction trying to pull the country out of the Depression. Each day was a new surge of creation. If the ideas did...

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