Thus I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil pursuits in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba an honest place for the National City Bank boys to gather revenues in. Roosevelt was thus unable to act till the beginning of WW2, at which time he prosecuted lots of the plotters under the Trading With The Enemy act. In fact, the Federal Reserve, being a private financial institution and never answerable to the US Government, did begin overprinting paper dollars, and much of th...