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there s an obscure footnote about japan s attempt to build a naval base on the mexican coast and baja, california. i knew frapping franklin roosevelt and was interested in what papers he had relating to the bay. i drove over from my home in connecticut to the frapping lin d. roosevelt library in hyde park. at the time, i had no interest whatsoever in writing about fdr, himself, but sometimes things happen. the fdr library is an amazing place. you have to wonder how any one man could have livedded a life crowded with so much. hundreds of thousands of shelf feet given over to zillions of telegrams, legal briefs, school book scribbles, secret cables, position papers, children s drawings, warnings, threats, scraps, and details of vitally important political land marks and long forgotten grand schemes that ran out of steam before they were acted upon. i discoveredded there was not a lot about the bay in the library. i was not that surprised. the crisis was more or less settled

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