His five and a half years in the Hanoi Hilton could have been avoided, had he remained on the Forrestal.
Denied firm direction from the ailing Forrestal, Reid and Lanham could do little against service opposition.
It was obvious that Forrestal wanted to avoid publicizing the project.
Finally in 1944 Forrestal began to experiment with integration in seagoing assignments.
The program turned out to be more racially progressive than initially outlined by Forrestal.
Granger and Forrestal agreed that the conference should be held soon.
