http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5072.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:24:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5072.html/comment-page-1#comment-85962 Lexington Green Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:28:07 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/5072.html#comment-85962 James, good review. Thank you. I would like to know more about the meeting between FDR and Saud. He tended to not say what he really thought he was doing. Also, he was willing to kick the can down the road. Getting access to Mideast oil was a major goal for his administration. Our oil patch was drying up. His Democrat supporters from Texas and other places wanted to get into the Mideast and develop it maintain their position as big dogs in the oil business. For better or for worse, the ties to the Saudi regime that FDR set in place have been at the foundation of American global power for over 60 years. Few writers on FDR say much about this episode. James, good review. Thank you. I would like to know more about the meeting between FDR and Saud. He tended to not say what he really thought he was doing. Also, he was willing to kick the can down the road. Getting access to Mideast oil was a major goal for his administration. Our oil patch was drying up. His Democrat supporters from Texas and other places wanted to get into the Mideast and develop it maintain their position as big dogs in the oil business. For better or for worse, the ties to the Saudi regime that FDR set in place have been at the foundation of American global power for over 60 years. Few writers on FDR say much about this episode.

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