Word: document
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forrestal. The document was placed before Forrestal one noontime while he was having lunch with his three service secretaries and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...candidate for reelection, nevertheless was still Mr. Johnny-on-the-job. High officials who later had it quoted to them (few ever actually got to see it) remembered such phrases as "unfriendly country" and "mobilization to meet an attack." Whereas the country was so ill-prepared for attack, the document continued, the Defense Department was ordered to organize the nation's reserves and report progress within 60 days...
...President, well pleased, went off on his political trip to the Midwest, leaving Assistant President Steelman to bring the document to flower and deliver it to Defense Secretary James...
Forrestal had already acted. The story around the Pentagon was that he telephoned Steelman and told him that the wording of the order was unthinkable. He sent the document to Major General Harold Bull, deputy director of G3, with instructions to take out the "unthinkable" passages and write an order which could be issued without scaring the wits out of the whole nation, if not the world. When General Bull finished his draft it was forwarded to Harry Truman on his campaign train...
Three months after Pearl Harbor, the committee issued a report on Japanese espionage. It was a huge document, but as many well-informed individuals pointed out, its contents were largely known before-hand. Discomfited, Dies remarked that at least the report was "educational...