Episode 92: The Spymaster Who Created Modern American Espionage, Part III

 

William Donovan resigns from the Justice Department when he is not appointed attorney general by his friend and newly elected president, Herbert Hoover. He returnes to law and comes out of the Great Depression a self-made millionaire. He also finds common cause with Franklin D. Roosevelt when he replaces Hoover in the White House, and in time, begins to convince FDR of the need for a centralized intelligence manager - something that J. Edgar Hoover and other influential Washington figures do everything in their power to prevent because they don't want some legal dilettante horning in on their territory. But when the US is pulled into World War II, FDR is glad that he listened to his new friend, Wild Bill.