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Administrator. Henry Stimson has during his year in office himself picked the three men who are his chief civilian aides. One of them is earnest Robert Porter Patterson, onetime overseas infantry officer and D.S.C.-man, who left the Federal appellate bench to become Under Secretary, the Secretary's right-hand man, who also handles Army buying. Another is Robert Abercrombie Lovett, wartime naval aviator, Assistant Secretary of War for Air who watches out for The Air Forces. The third is John Jay McCloy, Manhattan lawyer and A.E.F. artillery captain, who supervises Lend-Lease, Army publicity, personnel and many...
They are a sensible, hardworking, sometimes overserious staff, no New Deal crackpots. Secretary Stimson assigns them jobs, turns them loose to let them work in their own way, backs them up in emergencies, and holds them fully accountable for results. All his aides stand in considerable awe of him. For his anger is withering although as cold as his logic...
...quality that makes his reproofs most impressive is his own character, which never stoops to injustice, a kind of unshakeable integrity that is so great it impresses itself on all those who work with him. (Said one: "Every time I see Henry L. Stimson I think I see God hovering over his left shoulder. And when he rises in righteous indignation he's a holy terror...
Enemies on the Hill. Congressmen do not like to have God looking over anybody's shoulders, and one of Henry Stimson's weaknesses as Secretary of War is that the coldness of his logic and the strength of his character make too little allowance for practical politics...
...bitter days of early 1933, when Hoover left the White House, Stimson, then Secretary of State, was one of the members of the outgoing Cabinet who went to consult with the incoming President and Secretary of State. He remained on good terms with Cordell Hull thereafter. There was never any real break in U.S. foreign policy from Stimson's regime to Hull's regime, and it was ultimately Stimson's support of Roosevelt's foreign policy that drew him back into the Cabinet...