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"Reign of Terror." He had no malice -or at least he admits none now. In all his years around Washington, apparently the only person he disliked was Columnist Drew Pearson. "The punishment for noncooperation with Pearson can be quite terrible, as many public officials have found"-among them, he records...
The U.S. is now paying for the folly of its hasty demobilization five years ago and its refusal to start the buildup of its armed forces in 1948, as was urgently proposed by Forrestal. If the U.S. is again unwilling to meet the cost of defense-and fails again to...
Four Stars. Since Radford was a man of charm and an able, forceful lobbyist, he was persuaded by the late James Forrestal, then Secretary of the Navy, to stay in the CNO's office to negotiate the service merger which Forrestal saw was inevitably coming.
In more recent months, as the cold war got hotter, a Secretary of Defense might justifiably have asked for another examination of the policy of economy. Louis Johnson, Forrestal's successor, finally did, but only after he was prodded into it and then in a not-very-loud-voice...
The week the North Koreans struck, the last of 14 large carrier air groups was being decommissioned. The Valley Forge, with the eleven other warships of the Seventh Task Fleet, was the only carrier in Far Eastern waters. In the week when the U.S. embarked on its police action, it...