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After his defeat for Governor of New York in 1910, President Taft made Stimson his War Secretary. In the War Department still hangs the portrait of Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War (1911-1913). A year ago when Henry Stimson sat down at the same felt-covered desk that he occupied 30 years ago, young officers looked at that portrait and winced. There is an immense difference between being Secretary of War and Secretary of a War. An old man of 73 was called to take that far harder assignment, and a year ago all that the old new Secretary...
That is not the sort of achievement which could have been expected under the political Secretaries who preceded Stimson-men like Weeks, Good, Hurley, Dern, Woodring. Most of the political department heads either meddled witlessly or let the Army run itself while they busied themselves with other things...
...spite of Washington whisperings about his age, principally on his own Republican side of Congress, Henry Lewis Stimson runs the Army. He probably lives closer to its high command than any Secretary since Newton D. Baker. Among Army men he is classed with the best Secretaries they have had in modern War Department history: Baker and Elihu Root...
...when the shining new War Department building on Washington's Virginia Avenue was opened two months ago. Its broad halls and stately offices were a beacon for any man who loves comfort and elegance. Many of the civilians in the department moved to the new building. But Henry Stimson hung on to his old office in the rabbit warren of the rambling Munitions building where most of the Army's Washington soldiers work...
...Stimson is on the job all the time. He knows everything that goes on in his department and in the course of a year has missed only three Cabinet meetings. His appointment book, meticulously kept, is like the schedule of a fast train, by the minute...