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...Patterson made his first explosive announcement since becoming Secretary of War (TIME, Oct. 1). He had completed a personal investigation of 57-year-old Colonel Theodore Wyman Jr., the Army's district engineer in Hawaii at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, and found him a fit officer and gentleman...
Senator Burton, who has had plenty of legislative and administrative experience (he was mayor of Cleveland for six years) but has never sat on a judicial bench, was not the President's first choice. That choice had been Robert Patterson, who became the new U.S. Secretary of War (see below...
Elder Statesman Stimson was still young enough to run his own show. He did, and not even Chief of Staff George Marshall ever doubted who was boss. Neither did the three strong men who came in as civilian aides: Judge Robert P. Patterson, his Under Secretary, and his Assistant Secretaries Robert A. Lovett and John Jay McCloy...
When Stimson stepped out, his right-hand man stepped up. By promoting earnest, dull and difficult Bob Patterson, President Truman made sure of continuity in War Department policy during the troublous demobilization months, the Pearl Harbor inquiry, the coming battle over the armed forces merger...
...Secretary Patterson won the D.S.C. as a company commander in the 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division in World War I, came home to the law. In 1940 he took time off from the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals bench in Manhattan, went to Plattsburg to retrain for the new war he saw coming. One afternoon, while emptying garbage cans with a KP detail, he got his summons from Stimson...