America was much different 75 years ago during a time of protracted war. I would not compare the actions of men during that time(although imperfect) to the actions of the people in our over bloated, corruption infused agencies of today. Tempting, yes, but different times, different stakes, different ethos.
IMHO and Freegards.
P.S. I consider the advent of the Clinton corruption, grifting team in the 1980’s to be the beginning of the current degradation of our civil governmental agencies and processes.
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