In those days secrets were well kept.
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I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.Stuart Symington
In 1941 the War Production Board asked if I would go to England and find out how to build the first power gun turret plant in the United States.
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In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
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Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.
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FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men.
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