Louis Johnson and the Arming of America

Informationen zum Autor Keith D. McFarland is President of Texas A&M University-Commerce and author of Harry H. Woodring: A Political Biography of FDR's Controversial Secretary of War and The Korean War: An Annotated Bibliography. He lives in Commerce, Texas. David L. Roll is a partner in the law firm of Steptoe & Johnson LLP whose practice focuses on antitrust and administrative law. He lives in Washington, D.C. Klappentext Woodring, Winston Churchill, Harry Hopkins, Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, and Paul Nitze find contemporary parallels in the recent disagreements between the national defense establishment and the State Department. Zusammenfassung Louis Johnson was FDR's Assistant Secretary of War and the architect of industrial mobilization plans that put the nation on a war footing prior to its entry into World War II. Later, as Truman's Secretary of Defense, Johnson was given the difficult job of unifying the armed forces and carrying out Truman's orders to reduce defense expenditures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Bedford Blood 2. Foot in the Door 3. Like Feuding Schoolboys 4. "Basic Shift in Mobilization Planning" 5. Understanding FDR 6. Surviving FDR 7. "But You Promised Me" 8. Personal Representative of the President 9. Long Shot Pays Off 10. Inside the Pentagon 11. Revolt of the Admirals 12. "Like a Meatchopper on Roundsteak" 13. "My God, the Russians Have the Bomb" 14. Entangling Alliance 15. "Till the Dust Settles" 16. Last Week in June 17. "Give Me Two American Divisions and I Can Hold Korea" 18. Means of Descent 19. "Lou, I've Got to Ask You to Quit" 20. "Lest Darkness Come" Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Woodring, Winston Churchill, Harry Hopkins, Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, and Paul Nitze find contemporary parallels in the recent disagreements between the national defense establishment and the State Department.

Zusammenfassung
Louis Johnson was FDR's Assistant Secretary of War and the architect of industrial mobilization plans that put the nation on a war footing prior to its entry into World War II. Later, as Truman's Secretary of Defense, Johnson was given the difficult job of unifying the armed forces and carrying out Truman's orders to reduce defense expenditures.

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Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Bedford Blood
2. Foot in the Door
3. Like Feuding Schoolboys
4. "Basic Shift in Mobilization Planning"
5. Understanding FDR
6. Surviving FDR
7. "But You Promised Me"
8. Personal Representative of the President
9. Long Shot Pays Off
10. Inside the Pentagon
11. Revolt of the Admirals
12. "Like a Meatchopper on Roundsteak"
13. "My God, the Russians Have the Bomb"
14. Entangling Alliance
15. "Till the Dust Settles"
16. Last Week in June
17. "Give Me Two American Divisions and I Can Hold Korea"
18. Means of Descent
19. "Lou, I've Got to Ask You to Quit"

20. "Lest Darkness Come"
    Conclusion

    Notes
    Select Bibliography
    Index