but ms. olson makes it clear thp decision to enter the war was ferociously controversial.t th the president roosevelt we remember from history, a bold, decisive leader, is not seen in this book.ly instead, roosevelt is portrayed as an extremely cautious politician afraid to get aheadar of public opinion. olson writes: the people wanted fdr to lead them while he seemed to expect them to lead him. the result was stasis. roosevelt and winston churchill, as one might expect, are por be. trayed vividly in the book, but the other dominant figure is tho famous aviator and really oddth dude -e - [laughter] charles lindbergh. revered as an american hero forf his solo flight across the atlantic in 1927, later reviled as a nazi sympathizer for his prominent role in the america first movement which opposed u.s. entry into the war. lindbergh, we learn through thio book, maintained a deeplythe strange ideology, was averse too his own celebrity and led a scandalous secret life. another fascinating character is we

olson. hello, ms. i want to question a point that you made about the irs having a reduction in cost. if anybody goes to new carrollton, they will find a building right next to the irs building, which is already huge, big is the pentagon, there is a building almost as large and has 110by csc which thousand employees all doing irs 110,000 -- which has employees all doing irs business. how does that result in the total number of people? guest: you make a good point about the use of contractors. i do think that contracting has been reduced. in terms of the new carrollton federal building, the irs has had a reduction of employees by know, 5%do not already. needs to be -- now it is down to 87,000 employees. 13,000 human beings that are no longer working for the irs. i think what you see, using new carrollton as an example, is the centralization of irs employees on certain large sites. i actually have a problem with that. what is being reduced to some of the more local offices, and i have a problem with that because i believe that if you have the irs out of the community that it is better f