"Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!"
This sounds like no way to organize a government. OTOH, they did win World War Two so it must have worked.
Jontathan Jordan, American Warlords:
A curious feature of Rooseveltian government was that individuals meant everything and titles meant nothing.
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To keep what he said hidden, even from his own military, FDR sent most outgoing messages through Navy channels and received incoming messages through the Army, ensuring that the White House maintained the only complete set of his correspondence with key leaders.
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The extraordinary fact was that the second most important individual in the United States Government during the most critical period of the world's greatest war had no legitimate official position nor even a desk of his own except a card table in his bedroom. However , the bedroom was in the White House.
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