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Sharing a Progressive Plan Saturday, 19 January 2013 10:15
Barack Obama and Woodrow Wilson: Sharing a Progressive Plan
Written by              While Obama’s mission to extend the
federal bureaucratic empire into every home in America is
carried out by a devoted committee of White House czars, when it
came to ruling in matters of domestic policy, Wilson looked to
one man: Colonel Edward Mandell House.   Incidentally, during
World War I, Wilson appointed Bernard Baruch to run the War
Industries Board. Baruch was sometimes called the "industry
czar."  Colonel House was very much the model of the modern
corps of White House czars that have been granted expansive
powers by the current occupant of the Oval Office.  The
international power brokers of the time (namely, the Council on
Foreign Relations founded by House himself) were so impressed by
Colonel House’s successful efforts at manipulating Wilson, that
they established the National Security Council