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Catholic Courier
April 20, 2018
Friedkin pointed to the Georgetown residence of James Forrestal, the secretary of defense under President Harry Truman. Forrestal had severe psychiatric problems and committed suicide by jumping out an eighth-story window at the U.S. Naval Hospital in 1949, when William Peter Blatty, who wrote theÃâà...
JNS.org
April 20, 2018
Nearly all of Truman's foreign policy “wise men” were against the idea, including Defense Secretary James Forrestal, George Kennan and Dean Rusk. They believed that it would present an issue with respect to American access to Arab oil. But Truman decided to recognize the Jewish state, making hisÃâà...
The Catholic Transcript
April 19, 2018
Friedkin pointed to the Georgetown residence of James Forrestal, the secretary of defense under President Harry Truman. Forrestal had severe psychiatric problems and committed suicide by jumping out an eighth-story window at the U.S. Naval Hospital in 1949, when William Peter Blatty, who wrote theÃâà...
ithaca.com
April 6, 2018
But while he's also mulling a memoir, Robbins has set to writing a two-act, one-man play aimed at celebrating and factually retelling the life of the nation's first Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, someone Robbins deeply admires and whose life intertwines with the very earliest inklings of the potentialÃâà...
Curbed DC
April 6, 2018
A month ago, this modern single-family home in Georgetown's East Village landed on the market for $6.5 million with a long history of hosting several celebrities, including Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and George W. Bush. Previously featured on the Washington Post, this notable listingÃâà...
A Magazine of American Culture
April 5, 2018
To give aid, James Forrestal (who later died under mysterious circumstances) had organized Operation Brook Club—perhaps the most exclusive club in New York and so named because many secret meetings took place on its premises—to collect and funnel money to the Christian Democrats, who hadÃâà...
Newsandtribune
April 2, 2018
Around 5,000 Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Company workers listen at the shipyard during World War II as they're addressed by the U.S. Navy's undersecretary, James Forrestal, who was visiting. This photo, originally from the Howard Steamboat Museum, ran in “Rivers of Time,” a book about the historyÃâà...
Statesville Record & Landmark
March 25, 2018
(3/26). Obituary for Carl Allen Jones, 68: “He was a member of Faith Baptist Church and was retired from McLean Trucking Co. for 36 years. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and was recognized by Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal.” (3/28). “Ralph Shuford, owner of Bummer's Restaurant,Ãâà...
The American Conservative
March 18, 2018
Averell Harriman, who had been ambassador in Moscow, gave a copy to Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, who already was deeply suspicious of Russia. Forrestal had copies made and spread them as widely as possible through official Washington, making sure that Truman saw it himself. CopiesÃâà...
Hilltop Times
March 14, 2018
Newly appointed Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal decided that segregation in the Navy was not cost-effective, allowing black women to serve in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, or WAVES, program. • Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space June 18, 1983,Ãâà...
Blasting News
March 11, 2018
Part of the reason why is that we highlighted dramatic and unknown stories that don't fit traditional narratives - like the story of Henry Wallace, the Socialist who nearly became President, or James Forrestal, the country's first Defence Secretary who went insane through fear and killed himself. We tried to lookÃâà...
The Guam Daily Post
March 4, 2018
During his oral history interview, Joseph Torres Barcinas told me that when he was a youth attending elementary school at Malesso, the secretary of Defense, James Forrestal, visited his father, Jesus Cruz Barcinas, at the recommendation of Laura Thomson, during Forrestal's official visit to Guam afterÃâà...
The Daily Princetonian
February 6, 2018
The University has partnered with BioLabs — a national network of shared labs and office facilities — to open a business incubator for science start-ups on the James Forrestal Campus, less than three miles away from the main campus. Princeton Innovation Center BioLabs will be a 31,000Ãâà...
Stripes Okinawa
December 20, 2017
To honor, yes, but also to connect with the lineage that ensured the Marine Corps will exist, in the words of Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, “…for the next 500 years.” The Marine Corps is the smallest branch of service in the U.S. military, and until WWII, was considered redundant to the Army andÃâà...
The Suffolk Journal
October 4, 2017
In James Carroll's “Midnight Ride,” Carroll paints a vivid, detailed picture of United States' first Secretary of Defense James Forrestal and his experience managing nuclear weapons in post-World War II and the effects of his decision on the global, nuclear progression thereafter. Carroll's ability to integrateÃâà...
Orlando Sentinel
July 27, 2017
Betty Jo Stockton talks about her younger brother, Charles David Kieser, who was 20-years-old when he died during a fire aboard the USS Forrestal during the Vietnam War. Susan JacobsonContact ReporterOrlando Sentinel. Privacy Policy. All Cathy Lowe has left of her brother Billy is a big box of military mementos andÃâà...
NPR
May 27, 2013
The letter, signed in fountain pen, was from the Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal. ... Someone, either James Forrestal, or an anonymous aide serving under him, had the humanity to think about the hundreds of thousands of sailors who were going to have to adjust to civilian life; many of them, like myÃâà...
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