Word: denfeld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experience was with "a rowboat at my summer home"; of a heart attack; in Omaha. His big job as Navy Secretary: joining President Truman in quelling the 1949 "revolt of the admirals," who feared loss of Navy power in the new strategic war planning. Matthews ousted Admiral Louis E. Denfeld as Chief of Naval Operations and, distrusting Navy channels, personally summoned to Washington (by commercial airline in civilian clothes) the Mediterranean's Sixth Task Fleet Commander Admiral Forrest P. Sherman...
...Retired Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, the chief of naval operations fired by Harry Truman in 1949. also came out for Taft: "[He] is a fighter and I think Truman is afraid...
...Louis Denfeld...
...found an embittered, bickering service, smoldering with animosity against its fellow services, the Administration, against Admiral Sherman himself. By his able advocacy of Navy views, by his quietly effective defense of Navy abilities, the new CNO quickly restored order and confidence. The newest member of the J.C.S. (replacing Admiral Denfeld, who was sacked in the unification row), he quickly proved himself its ablest member, a well-trained professional fighting man who also had a grip of world politics unmatched by any of his associates...
Matthews likes to say that his outstanding job for the Navy was to get Admiral Forrest Sherman to run it. He also managed to weather some roaring storms and rough sailing. He enraged his sea dogs by recommending the firing of Admiral Louis E. Denfeld as Chief of Naval Operations during the unification battle, but gradually won them over. He made a lot of people mad, including Harry Truman, by calling for a preventive war against Russia in a Boston speech last August, but that blew over too. Thereafter, SecNav was often seen but rarely heard from...