Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forrestal had already acted. The story around the Pentagon was that he telephoned Steelman and told him that the wording of the order was unthinkable. He sent the document to Major General Harold Bull, deputy director of G3, with instructions to take out the "unthinkable" passages and write an order which could be issued without scaring the wits out of the whole nation, if not the world. When General Bull finished his draft it was forwarded to Harry Truman on his campaign train...
...officials, not quite recovered from the Vinson fiasco, did their best to keep the whole affair a family secret. Mr. Steelman picked himself up, brushed himself off and tried to look both innocent and unruffled. "There was some talking back and forth when I presented the draft at the Pentagon," he recalled. "When the President goes off and leaves me in charge, I don't have time to pay much attention to little picayunish things...
...they were put under one boss 13 months ago, were put in positions where they could carry on the fight under one roof. From its headquarters on Constitution Avenue, the Navy high command last week started moving across the Potomac to join the Army and Air Force in the Pentagon...
...White House, President Truman conferred urgently with Secretary of State George Marshall and Defense Secretary James Forrestal. General Clay arrived and plunged into a round of top-level conferences at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill, with the National Security Council at the White House...
...increased airlift meant that the U.S. could not be driven out of Berlin by Russia's starvation tactics. It would give the Western Allies freedom to conduct negotiations in their own time. Announcing the decision at a Pentagon press conference, Clay was cautiously optimistic. "I don't want to minimize the situation in Germany. It is a serious situation. However, I do not think there is anybody in the world who is out looking for war at this moment...