Childhood and education; Spanish-American War; ordnance, teaching, submarines; Army War College; command of MISSISSIPPI; submarine command; Superintendent, Naval Academy, 1931-34; heavy cruisers, 1934-36; General Board, 1936-39 and 1942-45; Asiatic Fleet, 1939-41; Hart Investigation of Pearl Harbor; Senator from Connecticut, 1945-47. Impressions of many political and military figures, including The odore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Frank Knox, James Forrestal, General Douglas MacArthur and Admirals William Leahy, Harry Ervin Yarnell, Ernest King, Arthur Hepburn, Chester Nimitz, and Harold Stark.
Legislators--United States; World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; Spanish-American War, 1898; United States Politics and government 1945-1953; Hart, Thomas C. (Thomas Charles), 1877-1971; United States Naval Academy; United States. Navy; United States. Congress
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1962
Physical Description
284 pages
Note (Biographical)
Naval officer, senator.
Note
Interviewed by John T. Mason, Jr. on December 5, December 15, 1961, and January 26, 1962.