Epstein Secrets

a sixth term — after 20 years of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Truman. Shortly before the 1952 election, St

not the vice president or the clear protégé of the incumbent president. The examples will clarify. Since 1900, the three were William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover and George H.W. Bush. Six others tried and lost: James Cox, Adlai Stevenson, Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Al Gore and John McCain. Interestingly

ohn F. Kennedy at 43 years old. However, Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest President to hold office when a

age 69. William Henry Harrison served as President for the shortest amount of time — 31 days. He died of pneumonia a month after his inauguration. Herbert Hoover and his wife learned Chinese so they could have private conversations. "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency,

erica first." In the mid-to-late 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt took a different approach, pushing back, at firs

0684275 I, when the American public soured on overseas involvement, a series of Republican presidents, from Warren Harding to Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, tried to give the public what it wanted. In the process, they reinforced and hardened public opposition to overseas involvement. The task, Harding

e of the NSA | 199 Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt reactivated the operation as the Signal Security

Black Chamber. “Its sensitive ears catch the faintest whispering in the foreign capitals of the world.” But in 1929, at the instructions of President Herbert Hoover, Secretary of State Henry Stimson closed the Black Chamber, saying famously, “Gentlemen should not read each other’s mail.” The moratorium did not l

looming in Asia and Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt reactivated the operation as the Signals Security

Black Chamber. “Its sensitive ears catch the faintest whispering in the foreign capitals of the world.” But in 1929, at the instructions of President Herbert Hoover, Secretary of State Henry Stimson closed the Black Chamber saying famously “Gentlemen should not read each other's mail.” The moratorium did not last