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When Henry Lewis Stimson was 60, he sailed off to become the governor general of the Philippines. Cal Coolidge was President and the year was 1928. Stimson mellowly described the trip as "a last short adventure before...
...short adventure lasted nearly two decades of U.S. peace, depression and total war, for the best years of Henry Stimson's life were still ahead of him. He was to become first Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State, then-at 72-Franklin Roosevelt's gruff, wise and trusted wartime Secretary of War. Only last week did the long voyage come to an end. At 83, Elder Statesman Henry Stimson died of a heart attack at Highhold, his rolling, 123-acre estate on Long Island...
...There are three people to whom I can never say no," Robert Abercrombie Lovett once said. "My wife, Henry Stimson and General Marshall." In the past ten years, Bob Lovett has often shown that he meant just what he said...
...Henry Stimson's call, he gave up his Wall Street banking office (Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.) to become Stimson's special assistant, stayed on for the duration as Assistant Secretary of War for Air. After the war, he had scarcely settled back into private business before he got a call from George Marshall. Within a matter of days, he was back in Washington again as Marshall's Under Secretary of State. Last week Washington was on the wire again to the Lovett home at Locust Valley, N.Y. This time the caller-at the hearty hour...
...conducted their own poll, that no one doubts "his complete capability to take over the biggest job in the world on a moment's notice and fill it creditably." And of Dean Acheson the new Merry-Go-Rounders sum up: "the greatest Secretary of State since Henry L. Stimson...