For the President's Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to BushFrom the co-author of KGB: The Inside Story and an acknowledged authority on the subject comes "the most important book ever written about American intelligence."--David Kahn, author of The Codebreakers and Hitler's Spies |
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Contents
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The Path to Pearl Harbor | 75 |
Roosevelt at War 19411945 | 123 |
Harry S Truman 19451953 | 149 |
Dwight D Eisenhower 19531961 | 199 |
John F Kennedy 19611963 | 257 |
Lyndon B Johnson 19631969 | 307 |
Richard M Nixon 19691974 | 350 |
Gerald R Ford 19741977 | 397 |
Jimmy Carter 19771981 | 425 |
Ronald Reagan 19811989 | 457 |
George Bush 19891993 | 503 |
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