Transcription: The two men worked together with amazing smoothness. FDR attended to the technical problems and dealt with the admirals. The secretary handled matters of high policy and pushed the appropriations through Congress. In the company of Navy officers, with whom he was altogether comfortable, FDR laid claim to almost every departmental achievement. I'm running the real work, he boasted, and his impersonation of his countrified boss was the talk of the fleet. Fortunately, the secretary's regard for his assistant secretary outweighed his assistant secretary's insubordination. Roosevelt threw himself i ...
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