Louis Johnson and the arming of America the Roosevelt and Truman years
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| Beschreibung: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-435) and index Bedford blood -- Foot in the door -- Like feuding schoolboys -- "Basic shift in mobilization planning" -- Understanding FDR -- Surviving FDR -- "But you promised me" -- Personal representative of the president -- Long shot pays off -- Inside the Pentagon -- Revolt of the admirals -- "Like a meatchopper on roundsteak" -- "My God, the Russians have the bomb" -- Entangling alliance -- "Till the dust settles" -- Last week in June -- "Give me two American divisions and I can hold Korea" -- Means of descent -- :Lou, I've got to ask you to quit" -- "Lest darkness come." [As FDR's assistant secretary of war, and Truman's secretary of defense, Johnson confronted and carried out extremely unpopular initiatives that each president believed vital to the nation's security and economic welfare. This chronicles the rise and fall |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 452 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0253111641 9780253111647 |