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...heroic, but no wild man, in World War I, where he picked up seven decorations, including the Congressional Medal. The Law & Politics. After the war he poked around China and Siberia, came home to work profitably at corporation law, less profitably at Republican politics. He helped mastermind the Hoover campaign, but the attorney-generalship plum fell to William D. Mitchell. Donovan ran for governor of New York, but the year was 1932, so the winner was Democrat Herbert Lehman...
First to Fight. Longer than most men, he had seen and feared the conflict that brought him back to Washington five years ago. Sooner than most, he had learned that there was no passive defense against aggression. As Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State in 1931, he had spoken out almost alone against the Japs' first thrust at China. From then on he had refused to recognize Axis conquest, even when it was unpopular to refuse...
...Herbert Hoover and Charles G. Dawes, grinning together at a Chicago luncheon, made a where-have-I-seen-that-before picture. The ex-Vice-Presidential author of the 1924 Dawes Plan for reparations heard the ex-Presidential World War I debt expert sound some alarms on World War II debts. Hoover doubted that "much, if anything, of our 40 billions of Lend-Lease" would be repaid, but suggested waiting until "five years hence, when the shape of the world is more clear," instead of canceling the debts now. Meantime, he added, "we should demand that all the weapons we have...
Woodrow Wilson: "a Presbyterian baboon"; Herbert Hoover: "a superior bookkeeper"; Harry Truman: "an 8th Ave. haberdasher"; Douglas MacArthur: "a big show-off"; Henry Mencken: "I guess I'm an old cadaver...
...watched five disarmament conferences with a skeptical eye, came to be a journalistic panjandrum. Dwight Morrow and Charles Dawes sought his advice. President Hoover tried to get him fired for a story he cabled about U.S. Navy ambitions ("I wrote the President himself, informing him tersely what I thought of his conduct. I never received a reply...