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Working seven days a week, including Christmas, Forrestal had little social life. He prided himself on being able to attend a cocktail party, greet the hostess, down a martini, exchange a few pleasantries and take his leave-all in eight minutes. At 34, Forrestal married a New York socialite and...
Battling Uncle Joe. In 1940, as war grew closer, President Roosevelt looked around for friendly businessmen to serve in his Administration. Forrestal was interviewed by Harry Hopkins and recruited. He was appointed to the newly created post of Under Secretary of the Navy and soon made his rather vaguely defined...
In the Navy Department, Forrestal began his personal war on Communism. Russian secretiveness and arrogance had aroused his suspicions. He put his staff to work investigating Communist infiltration in the U.S., collected reams of writings on Communism, encouraged George Kennan, chargé d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in...
After the war, the battle over unification of the armed forces was joined and Forrestal jumped right in. President Truman and the Secretary of War were in favor of a strong defense chief; Forrestal was not. He felt the defense establishment was too big to be bossed by any one...
Hint of Violence. Forrestal soon reached an impasse. He thought Truman's military budget too skimpy to stop Communist aggression (the Korean war proved him right). He did his best to slice up the budget among the services, but the service secretaries sabotaged his efforts by going over his...