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...chance for a calm non-partisan examination of our internal security problem has been lost. It vanished last Saturday when President Truman regretfully accepted the resignation of the Nimitz Commission. This group of nine outstanding civilians headed by Admiral Chester Nimitz was to study our crazy-quilt security program and make recommendations for uniform standards and procedures. It was sabotaged by a single senator, one who makes a practise of subordinating the nation's interest...
...forbid men who have left the service within two years from dealing with government agencies. Members of the Hoover Commission, Selective Service, Defense Production and Civil Defense Agencies receive exemptions from the statutes with no trouble. But Senator Pat McCarran, head of Senate Judiciary Committee, refused to exempt the Nimitz Commission. Senator McCarran felt that the Security question is sole property of the Internal Security Subcommittee, headed by Senator McCarran, which supervises enforcement of the McCarran Bill...
...fought under various separate and shifting commands that sometimes passed the ball to each other, more often starred individually in sallies against the enemy. Even today, MOT's research staff often has to dig long and well to resolve hard-held disagreement over the strategy used by Admiral Nimitz' fleets, General MacArthur's forces, or the various commanders in China, Burma and India. Working only a few weeks ahead of telecast dates, the scripters and editors are pulling together the story of the five years of restless peace since V-J day, will do the final chapters...
...frequently bitter, always uphill. At first, the Navy was coolly indifferent, more interested in relaxing from the last war than preparing for a new one. Rickover badgered his superiors until they began to listen, slowly working his way up through Pentagon channels. By 1947, Rickover had convinced Admiral Chester Nimitz; the Navy declared an atomic submarine "militarily desirable...
...Navy's best (he won a personal "E" for dive bombing and fighter gunnery). During World War II, as skipper of the aircraft carrier Wasp, he won a Navy Cross for his handling of the ship when she was torpedoed off Guadalcanal. Later, as Admiral Chester Nimitz' chief planner, he devised the Navy's brilliant leapfrog tactics in the fight across the Pacific...