Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...angle, and I'm not going to let any sort of talk by others make me a candidate." Asked if he had seen the Key West stories, he replied: "I wouldn't comment on anything [Harry Truman] said, even if he said it." Then, voicing the "highest respect and admiration" for the President, he added: "Back in 1948, he never wavered in believing that I meant what I said in declining to be a candidate, and I don't believe he is wavering...
...requested my removal from duty as Chief of Naval Operations, giving among the reasons therefor that I was, in your opinion, not loyal to my superiors and did not have the 'respect for authority' that should exist 'between various official ranks...
...While there are assignments in which I could serve inside the Navy without fear that my loyalty to the best interests of this nation would be questioned, it could conceivably happen that other nations, having read of this public accusation, would not have the necessary respect for, and confidence in me, which the commander in chief of the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean forces should enjoy in his relations with officials of other governments ... I would be under an undesirable restraint on the vital matter of frank discussion with the military representatives of other North Atlantic pact nations. My views...
...implication in your letter . . . that a group of free American citizens cannot objectively discuss both sides of questions of policy unless the discussion is guided by some federal appointee can hardly be made seriously. Our members are remarkably well-informed on public-policy matters and . . . particularly well-informed with respect to your own proposal. It has been thoroughly discussed...
While refusing as yet to identify his new witness, Wallach emphasized his admiration for the person's "intellectual courage," in considering a challenge of Father Feeney, whom Wallach called, in a prepared statement, "a man of great, if misdirected, ability, whom many once rightly considered worthy of attention and respect...