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Maude Byrnes and Catherine Nimitz, wives of the Secretary of State and Chief of Naval Operations, showed up at a community canning center in Washington, helped put up peaches. It was "National Home Food Preservation Week...
Secretaries Patterson and Forrestal, General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz, working under presidential pressure, had reached agreement on eight disputed points, remained deadlocked over four which Truman himself undertook to adjudicate. In forming a common front on the eight points, the Army had done most of the giving, the Navy most of the taking. There would be no Chief of Staff of all the armed forces (who, it had been feared, might become "a man on horseback"); the Joint Chiefs would remain the top military directors; there would be a Council of Common Defense and a National Security Resources Board...
...President's greatest achievement was in winning the agreement of Forrestal and Nimitz to support the proposals he had arbitrated. A major obstacle remained in the entrenched chairmen of the House and Senate Naval Affairs Committees, fearful of losing power & patronage. Public and military pressure would have to reduce these last political pillboxes...
...said the State Department's Jimmy Byrnes, War's General Dwight Eisenhower and Navy's Admiral Chester Nimitz. They asked Congress for permission to train the Latin Americans in U.S. military dogma and arm them with U.S. guns, ships and planes. They want the hemisphere (Canada could come in, too, if it liked) equipped with interchangeable weapons and trained in a common technique...
John Harvard's latter-day sons suddenly included a fine collection of highly polished brass. Honorary LL.D.s went to: General Henry H. Arnold, General Alexander A. Vandegrift, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Generals George C. Marshall and Douglas MacArthur (in absentia). John had it just about covered...