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It has also been practiced many times throughout our history , not for a second to refer to President Truman and the likes of that litany ; but it was not long after the Truman administration took office , the United States found itself in a fight with Korea and the government greatly expanded . So our purpose is to do what the president of the United States told us to do . I was expecting to continue down that career path , but out of the blue , the President of the United States asked me to head the Drug Enforcement Administration . That the inauguration of the American Century brought a loss of public geographical sensibility in the United States was itself a political symptom of the emerging empire . When the Polish people began to reassert control over their national destinies , the United States committed itself to supporting their pioneering efforts to secure their freedom and to build a market economy and stable democratic rule . Having prodded the IAEA to act as witness for the prosecution , a role it was unsuited to perform , the United States found itself hostage to an IAEA that became relentless in investigating the North 's nuclear past . Which brings us to this week 's events , the first time in more than 100 years that the continental United States found itself attacked on its own territory .