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...youngest officers ever proposed as Chief of Naval Operations. His World War II record was impressive. He commanded the aircraft carrier Wasp until she was shot out from beneath him in the Solomons in 1942. During the final years of the war he was Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz' "brain"; he helped plan the great sweep across the Pacific from Tarawa to Okinawa...
...Admiral Nimitz, General Eisenhower, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, former Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones...
...That's Sufficient." Chairman Carl Vinson peered at Radford over his glasses. Did the Navy officially endorse these views? No, said Radford, but "on the large issue involved, my feelings are shared by every senior officer, by practically every experienced officer." He began reeling off names: "Admiral Halsey, Nimitz, King, Leahy, Blandy, Conolly, Denfeld ..." "Now, that's sufficient," broke in Vinson...
Leathery Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, now living in retirement in San Francisco, was getting ready for a new assignment: running the U.N. plebiscite to find out whether Kashmir should join India or Pakistan...
...committee was headed by New York Banker Ferdinand Eberstadt, who helped draft the unification plan, and included, among consultants, Admirals Nimitz and King and Generals Eisenhower and Spaatz...