Stuart Symington Quotes

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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…
• Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the…
• My father-in-law was once Chairman of Military Affairs in the Senate, the latter part of the Wilson Administrations. He knew a lot about and was…
• Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some…
• If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.
• In real danger sometimes even a democracy can really keep a secret.
• I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the…
• 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…
• The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to…
• But the Air Force was sort of a bastard child of the Army, much like the Marines with the Navy. Everything had to be done…
• 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…
• It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing…
• Sure, you would lose more bombers without fighters, but, flying in formation, you could get the job done.
• In those days secrets were well kept.
• Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with…

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