Word: richardson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Later that afternoon, President Franklin Roosevelt said at his press conference that he had merely been brushing up on his geography; he and the Admirals had been looking at maps. The real story of the meeting was never told until Admiral Richardson told it last week before the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee...
...sedan sang until it slowed for the turn into the White House drive. As the big machine stopped, with the air of quiet pomp that only official cars achieve, the wind bent trees out across the wide, wet lawns. The burly man in the back seat-Admiral James Otto Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet-did not appear to notice. He had arrived punctually at 1 o'clock; he got out quickly, and walked into the executive mansion, looking straight ahead...
...Admiral Richardson, talking across the gadget-littered desk, did not respond to the President's ebullience. He was in tensely worried ; he had been brooding for months over the crowded anchorage at Pearl Harbor, the fleet's lack of manpower, ammunition, shore defenses, a proper supply train. Neither the Navy nor the nation, he had concluded, was ready...
...President shook his head. He wanted a hole card on the table. He needed the fleet in Hawaii as a "restraining influence on Japan." "But," protested "Joe" Richardson, "Japan has a military government which knows our fleet is undermanned . . . unprepared. . . ." "Despite what you believe," the President said, "I know that the presence of the fleet in the Hawaiian Islands has had-and is now having-a restraining in fluence...
...Richardson went on arguing, with stubborn formality: "Mr. President, I still do not believe it . . . I know that our fleet is disadvantageous disposed for preparing for, or initiating war operations...