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Salty Man. Strauss became Hoover's private secretary, accompanied him to Europe to help with the food relief pro gram. Strauss provides glimpses of a salty Hoover. "Young man," a British admiral said to Hoover, "I don't see why you American chaps want to feed those bloody Germans." Snapped Hoover: "Old man, we can' t understand why you British chaps want to starve women and children after they are licked...
...Strauss enjoyed a personal triumph at the Paris Peace Conference. He drafted a letter that Hoover sent to President Wilson urging independence for Finland. When it was granted, the Finnish representative came by with tears in his eyes to thank the young Strauss...
After the conference, Strauss went to work for the New York investment banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., stayed for 25 years. In World War II, Strauss joined the Naval Bureau of Ordnance, helped establish the Office of Naval Research. His particular hero was then Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, who, he believes, became the most powerful member of the wartime Cabinet and, had he lived, might have been Eisenhower's opponent in 1952. Strauss's particular antipathy was the Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King. When King announced one day that he was impounding...
Battle for the Bomb. Strauss was one of few in the Government to argue against using atomic bombs on Japan; he contends that U.S. policymakers knew Japan wanted to surrender long before they dropped the atomic bombs. But Strauss had no doubts about the need for the U.S. to keep ahead in the nuclear arms race. Shortly after his appointment to the AEC in 1946, he recommended building a monitoring system to detect Russian atomic blasts. At the time, most people thought a Russian atom bomb was years away; Strauss had to plead, push, finally offered...
...Strauss battled for the hydrogen bomb against even stronger opposition. It included the four other members of the AEC, as well as J. Robert Oppenheimer, and most other scientists advising the commission. President Truman took the advice of Strauss (and others) and ordered the bomb to be built. In August 1952, seven months after the first U.S. test, the Russians exploded their first hydrogen bomb. Strauss resigned from the AEC in 1950, but in 1953 he was appointed AEC chairman by Eisenhower and served until...