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Paul Krugman, NY Times columnist in the Palm Beach Post 1-27-07, "Nothing to Fear from Partisanship",
says FDR "faced fierce opposition as he created the institutions -Social Security, unemployment insurance,
more progressive taxation and beyond-that helped alleviate inequality. And he didn't shy away from confrontation."

Then Mr. Krugman quotes FDR: "We had to struggle" (he declared in 1936) "with the old enemies of peace-
business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war
profiteering. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate
as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred."

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Bob Woodward's book, "Veil:secret wars of the CIA 1981 to 1987" Here's an excerpt:
P.372-3 (Bill Casey is in his 4th year as Ronald Reagan's CIA director)
“In July, Congressman Charlie Wilson obtained another $50 million for the Afghan covert operation. With the money he had gotten earlier plus the CIA’s request, that meant $120 million....With the Saudis matching dollar for dollar, soon a half billion would be going to the Afghan rebels. That was fine with Casey, but as he surveyed the globe he concluded that it was not rational to put virtually all the covert eggs into a single basket.”

“There were 2 other covert support operations that were important...Casey had still managed to keep them secret. One was the $5 million in the budget for the Cambodian-resistance support operation, and his plan was to add another $12 million at the end of the year, even though this helped the Khmer Rouge indirectly. .....Casey was willing to dance cautiously with the devil. He saw the anti-Communist resistance movements as a unit-Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Angola, Ethiopia and Cambodia were the battleground. This was the ‘Reagan Doctrine’” (Bob Woodward's book, "Veil: secret wars of the CIA 1981 to 1987"

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