The fascist’s second White House chief of staff, John Kelly, tried to convince him to praise Mussolini rather than Hitler, because Mussolini was less evil.

Kelly said that the fascist loves dictators because he was dissatisfied with the comparatively limited power of the President of the United States.

One correction to the article: The figure of 400,000 American military killed is actually the global total for World War II, not the number killed in Europe alone.