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Are the Defense Reorganization Years of Turbulence 1947-50 Telling US Anything About the JFK Hit?
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Hello.

Are the Defense Reorganization Years Of Turbulence 1947-50 Telling US Anything About the JFK Hit? Who can translate the cacophaTHUDny? Where is Robert Howard?

Consider this from Roger Hilsman

"When Acheson was faced with a very ambitious Secretary of Defense who reached aggressively beyond the Pentagon for dominance over the whole spectrum of policy, he forced a showdown and before it was over, true to his "killer instinct," his opponent, Louis Johnson, had been fired."

Forrestal's death, however suicided, can be seen as a failure to end the interdepartmental strife in the new fief amalgam galled the Defense Department. Was Johnson's brief tenure another such failure?

What about the comparative weakness of Rusk, compared to Acheson? Was the factionalized State Department of 1961-63 the result of different branches the military, specifically the newly ascendent Air Force weaving into Foggy Bottom Wainscoting, which is either the name of my old band or a competitor to Depends undergarments?

Now what about the wacky relationship between Harriman and Forrestal Jr. both as it affected Vietnam in 1963 and in terms of the Factionalization of Forrestal The E:captain:lder's scull?
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Are the Defense Reorganization Years of Turbulence 1947-50 Telling US Anything About the JFK Hit? - by Nathaniel Heidenheimer - 13-08-2013, 04:55 PM

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