and if alan dulles said i don't even know the name of the governor of mississippi. he had never been involved in the civil rights issue at all. he did go to mississippi and spent two days and wrote a little report that no one ever read, but the reason he was sent there was because lyndon johnson wanted to stick it to jay edgar hoover and worked. >> of the relationship with him had been effective on the project did they protect him and see to it that he doesn't get back to much? >> you are referring to the economic minister and the regime and he is a figure in this book. he and alan dulles worked very well together and there were some other types of people that i admired the culture that had produced each other growth for very stark religiously shaped people, at least that is what they would describe themselves as. so they were the key link between nazi germany and the united states during the 1930's. he was brought before the tribunal and he was found not guilty, although the chief of the tribunal, justice robert jackson wrote in his decision that he was the chief f

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he had friendships with the family and he kept them going, and he was friends with alan dulles the former head of the cia. he maintained relationships which crossed party lines but it was partly due to this historical fascination with people in power. >> other example of exactly this was he came to appreciate reagan's political skills and when president reagan died saying however much we may have disagreed he understood the nature of the presidential office and an important point i want to say that puts this in -- a consistent theme all the way through was the power of the presidency. we have seen it and we saw it in the entire book in the imperial presidency book but early on he had this view like wilson and like kennedy, like jackson that it should be the center of national action, that the president was the key figure in the system and urges bill clinton urges al gore late in the 20th century in their acceptance speeches in there and not girls to layoff figures programs of action for presidential leadership and to follow them up with presidential education. his other subject frank and

place with united fruit on the board of united fruit was john foster dulles who happen to be our secretary of state and his brother alan. was the head of cia and so there was a convenient link for these fears about appropriation of land with the cia the cia is not working to protect the american people its primary function is to protect american corporations.