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TIME, Aug. 5 says California's Republican Party's "leadership has been vague . . . salesmanship negative, a dreary record." Here is that vague, negative, dreary record New Dealer Forrestal's friend talks about. In 1942 Republicans were elected here to five of the six state offices from governor...
Secretaries Patterson and Forrestal, General Eisenhower and Admiral Nimitz, working under presidential pressure, had reached agreement on eight disputed points, remained deadlocked over four which Truman himself undertook to adjudicate. In forming a common front on the eight points, the Army had done most of the giving, the Navy most...
The President's greatest achievement was in winning the agreement of Forrestal and Nimitz to support the proposals he had arbitrated. A major obstacle remained in the entrenched chairmen of the House and Senate Naval Affairs Committees, fearful of losing power & patronage. Public and military pressure would have to...
¶I Called War & Navy Secretaries Robert Patterson and James Forrestal to the White House, bluntly told them to iron out their merger differences by May 31.
Jimmy Forrestal, whose 22 years in Wall Street, including three as president of Dillon, Read & Co., had given him the financial know-how for the $30,000 a year job, had been offered it last week. (Onetime U.S. Budget Director Lewis W. Douglas had turned it down.) Although Forrestal was...