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If the American nation is to be run by keyhole columnist pressure, so that one can . . . undermine men like Forrestal and Clay, then indeed the U.S. is in a hell of a shape.
Winchell's reference to an investigation of Forrestal's old Wall Street firm concerned a Senate committee hearing in 1933 on financial trading. Forrestal pointed out: "I stated that the applicable tax laws of the U.S. and Canada had led me to make" an investment in 1929 in...
Last week Forrestal was still in the Cabinet, Winchell, Pearson, Allen, et al. notwithstanding. He called on the President, and afterwards told waiting reporters, who asked him whether he expected to continue as Secretary of Defense: "Yes, that's right. I will continue to be a victim of the...
Forrestal had not raised his finger in the election campaign, and in fact had embarrassed the President politically by his stand on Palestine. Forrestal plugged aggressively in Cabinet sessions for his policies, sometimes on subjects which the President didn't think concerned him. It was no secret that Harry...
Paradoxically, Forrestal last week still held his job largely because of the attacks on him. He himself wanted to get out, but he was unwilling to go out under pressure. Harry Truman was letting him stay on, at least a little longer, because the President also gets stubborn under pressure...