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Managing the Team. In another, subtler way Clifford also made his influence felt. The President likes to boast that he has the best Cabinet since Rutherford B. Hayes.* At least two members of his Cabinet-George Marshall and James Forrestal-are men of unusual ability and integrity. Certainly Mr. Truman...
The U.S. press abhors the very idea of censorship, except where the nation's security is plainly involved. So does Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, who has plugged for sensible security rules ever since he pried open the Navy's clam-tight policy in 1944. Military censorship ended...
Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Research & Development Board, and some other top brass, seconded his motion. But newsmen were not so sure that even "voluntary censorship" was needed. Forrestal conceded that there have been only two major leaks since war's end. (One was Aviation Week's...
The nominal unification of the armed forces had not stilled interservice bitterness, and no one knew it better than Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. A month ago, he decided that the air transport services of the Air Force and the Navy should be merged. He bluntly ordered the respective Secretaries...
Last week Forrestal was able to announce the "broad outline" of the first major step toward effective integration. Planes and personnel of NATS and ATS would be combined to form the Military Air Transport Service, under the command of the Air Force. The new service would fly all scheduled routes...