President Franklin D$.$ Roosevelt once said, $$I am wholly unable to figure out the amount of tax,$$ and wrote to the Federal Commissioner of Revenue, $$may I ask that $($the agency$)$ let me know the amount of the balance due.$$ When a friend of FDR was ordered to pay $$420,000$ in tax penalties, the President called the Commissioner within earshot of reporters and told him to cut the penalties to $$3,000.$ One listener, journalist David Brinkley, recalled years later: $$Nobody seemed to think it was news or very interesting.$$ Evaluate the President$$s comments and actions.