One of the White House staffers reflected on Roosevelt’s mastery of the flow of information: “He would call you in and he’d ask you to get the story on some complicated business, and you’d come back after a couple of days of hard labor and present the juicy morsel you’d uncovered under a stone somewhere, only to find out he knew all about it, along with something else you didn’t know.… After he had done this to you once or twice, you got damn careful about your information.”
