[ProgressingAmerica]

It's interesting to note that this article has two headlines, the headline for the article's continuation on page 2 column 3 is: ICKES NAMED TO OIL DICTATORSHIP

This is history that needs to be remembered. I'm glad to dig it out and put it on display.

FDR's 11 Dictators are as follows:

(1) Censorship Dictator (Dictator of Censorship)

(2) Information Dictator (Dictator of Information)

(3) Economic Dictator

(4) Food Dictator

(5) Manpower Dictator

(6) Oil Dictator

(7) Price Dictator

(8) Production Dictator

(9) Rubber Dictator

(10) Shipping Dictator

(11) Transportation Dictator

The Wikipedia page for Executive Branch Czars unsurprisingly omits this fact.

[ProgressingAmerica]

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Progressives do not want to discuss their own history. I want to discuss their history.

Summary: I was asked the other day about executive level Czars, and I tried explaining that they weren't originally called that. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first to do this, and he called his appointments dictators.

[Sherman Logan]

Actually, the article says Ickes would be a virtual dictator, not that this was his title.

If you have any reference that shows these guys actually carried the title Dictator, I’d like to see it.

BTW, this was entirely justified at such a time, and necessary to win the war. The problem is that liberals are enthralled with the power (properly) given such guys during wartime and want to extend it into peace and make it permanent. With them in charge, of course.

[THE_RAIDER]

a great cartoon from 1934 Ickes is on the wagon. read more here: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/06/14/trib-reruns-1934-cartoon-planned-economy-or-planned-destruction

[SES1066]

These 'dictators' had a mixed record and in the end Roosevelt had to turn to business tychoons to get the USA on a productive footing. An excellent book on this subject is "FREEDOM'S FORGE", portraying GM's William Knudsen and steel magnate Henry J. Kaiser in their "dollar-a-year" roles as production czars!

[freekitty]

Looks like the Clinton people are being put into place.

[justiceseeker93]

It's pretty obvious that some people at the Obama White House have studied the history of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration quite extensively and are emulating it whenever feasible. So we are today reliving in many ways the tyrannical government actions that occurred then, with slight changes in the government vocabulary, perhaps, like Obama’s “czars” instead of Roosevelt's “dictators.”