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...Colonel Fleming confided later that he had first submitted his speech to Defense Director Knudsen. Said Fleming: "Knudsen read it and then he said, 'You're dead right...
...Does this mean that Mr. Knudsen is the head of OPM-or Mr. Hillman...
...announced a month ago, the order set up a four-man board-the Office of Production Management-to direct the defense program. The board would consist of a Director General (Knudsen), Associate Director General (Hillman), the Secretaries of Navy and War. The board would have all the power the President could give to survey, formulate and execute for national-defense production. "The Director General in association with the Associate Director General" would do the administrative job, subject to the "yes" or "no" of the President...
Franklin Roosevelt grinned. Both of them. Incredulous, someone asked the question again. The President tried for an analogy. Knudsen & Hillman should be considered like a firm-like that famous law firm of Roosevelt & O'Connor. You went to Roosevelt and O'Connor. And you'd go to Knudsen and Hillman. If a conflict over policy should arise, Knudsen & Hillman could always consult the President. But it was silly to worry about disputes between them. Even over a labor question-say, Ford Motor Co. contracts? Yes, silly. The head man of national defense...
Whether Knudsenhillman would get along with himself, no man knew. That Knudsen & Hillman should work well together was a vital national necessity. Whether they could was another matter. That it was the easy way to mollify both industry and labor was plain to see. The inference of the President's act was that, although the nation's defense cried out for a boss who would have the confidence of both capital and labor, there was not a single man who could fill the bill. Perhaps such a man would emerge later, forced up by the pressure of events...