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Soon, Knox went to President Roosevelt to decide the appointment of a new Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet. A year before, Knox had submitted two names: Husband Edward Kimmel and Chester William Nimitz, in that order. Franklin Roosevelt had picked the first name. This time, said Knox, he would be satisfied with the second name from the same list. The President agreed. Nimitz himself demurred; he suggested that the command should go to Vice Admiral William S. Pye, who had taken over temporarily from Kimmel after the disaster. But he accepted his orders, and started west in civilian clothes, under...
...evidence, the Secretaries found, did not warrant court-martialing any Army or Navy officer for what he did or failed to do preceding the Pearl Harbor attack. Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel would not get his day in court, which he has demanded. Major General Walter C. Short had been punished enough when he was removed, like Kimmel, from his command...
...Errors of Judgment." The almost identical statements did not whitewash Kimmel and Short, both of whom had been charged with dereliction of duty in the earlier Roberts report (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942). In a calmer atmosphere, the Secretaries now found Kimmel and Short merely guilty of "errors of judgment." In one respect the Secretaries went farther than the Roberts report. They spread an indictment for bad judgment over "[naval] officers both at Pearl Harbor and at Washington," as well as other "officers in the field and in the War Department." (No names were mentioned...
...Boston Charles B. Rugg, counsel for Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, issued a statement saying that Forrestal's "suggested procedure is a spacious pretext to keep the truth of Pearl Harbor hidden from Dec. 7, 1941 to Nov. 7, 1944. This inconsistent and dilatory procedure is unjust to Admiral Kimmel...
...Lieut. General Walter C. Short, commander of the Hawaiian Department, who was blamed with Kimmel for the failure of U.S. defenses, is in charge of "traffic and transportation" at the Ford Motor Co. plant in Dallas...