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Book Synopsis Harry H. Woodring by : Keith D. McFarland
Download or read book Harry H. Woodring written by Keith D. McFarland and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Harry H. Woodring by : Keith D. McFarland
Download or read book Harry H. Woodring written by Keith D. McFarland and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The names of most of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s cabinet members are well known. Anyone familiar with FDR’s administration will remember Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, Henry Wallace, and James Farley. One member of that circle, however, has remained a virtual unknown: Harry H. Woodring, the recalcitrant Secretary of War who was forced by Roosevelt to resign from the cabinet. It is doubtful that the story of any of Roosevelt’s cabinet members is more interesting than that of Woodring. With the breakdown of world peace in the 1930s, the matter of national defense became a major concern, and the United States military establishment became increasingly important. Woodring’s role in Washington during this time was a critical one; his dealings with Roosevelt were extensive, and on many key issues his influence was considerable. Why, then, his lack of notoriety? The simple fact is that until now almost nothing has been written of Woodring’s service as Secretary of War. He was one of the few individuals closely associated with Roosevelt who did not write an autobiography, memoirs, or some other personal account of what took place during those years. Keith D. McFarland is the first scholar to have had access to Woodring’s personal papers. Drawing from this new material, as well as from Woodring’s official correspondence and from personal interviews with the members of Woodring’s immediate family and dozens of Woodring’s associates, he provides in this volume the careful study that has long been needed. McFarland first traces Woodring’s early political career in Kansas. As a Democratic Governor from 1931 to 1933, Woodring worked successfully with the Republican-dominated legislature to alleviate many of the physical and economic hardships facing residents of the state during the Depression, Nevertheless, he lost his bid for re-election to Alf M. Landon. When Roosevelt won the presidency that same year, he appointed Woodring as Assistant Secretary of War. Woodring served the country well on the national level. He was influential to expanding the Army Air Corps and in making practical the Army’s industrial and military mobilization plans. After the death of George Dern in 1936, Roosevelt demonstrated his confidence in Woodring by appointing him Secretary of War. The conflict between Woodring and the President arose over the sending of American military supplies and equipment to foreign nations. It was Woodring’s job as secretary of War to see that the War Department adhered to the neutrality legislation of the 1930s. Roosevelt believed that the United States should aid the enemies of Hitler, even if such action did not adhere to the spirit of the neutrality legislation. Upon the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, FDR did everything he could to supply Britain and France with American arms and munitions. Woodring was caught between is loyalty and devotion to the President and his sincere belief that the chief executive’s program would endanger the nation’s security. Maintaining that it was tactically unsound to give away supplies at a time when the U.S. Army was in desperate need of such items, Woodring made concerted efforts to prevent the implementation of FDR’s program. The President was forced to ask him to resign. Few American Presidents have been more respected and admired than Frankoin D. Roosevelt. There has been a tendency to disregard, ignore, or ridicule those administrative officials who disagreed with his actions and objectives. In relating the viewpoint of a distinguished, patriotic American who strongly opposed FDR’s policies and tried to change them, this book provides a clearer understanding of politics and government in pre-World War II America.
Book Synopsis Addresses by the Honorable Harry H. Woodring, the Secretary of War, June 21, 1937 to May 2, 1940 by : Harry Hines Woodring
Download or read book Addresses by the Honorable Harry H. Woodring, the Secretary of War, June 21, 1937 to May 2, 1940 written by Harry Hines Woodring and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Secretary of War [Harry H. Woodring] to the President. 1939 by : Harry H. Woodring
Download or read book Report of the Secretary of War [Harry H. Woodring] to the President. 1939 written by Harry H. Woodring and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harry H. Woodring written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autographed photograph typed, signed letter America Harry Hines Woodring (May 31, 1890 - September 9, 1967) was a U.S. political figure. He was born in 1890 in Elk City, Kansas. He was educated in city and county schools and at sixteen began work as a janitor in the First National Bank of Neodesha, Kansas. He briefly attended business college, which gained him employment as a bookkeeper and assistant cashier of the First National Bank in Elk City. He soon became assistant cashier at the First National Bank of Neodesha. Woodring moved up quickly to become vice president and owner of the bank until he enlisted as a private in the US Army; later commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Tank Corps in World War I. He was elected department commander of the American Legion in Kansas then in 1928 he sold his banking business to enter politics. Woodring won the Kansas gubernatorial election of 1930 in a controversial three-way race with Republican Frank Haucke and write-in candidate and goat-gland transplantation specialist, Dr. John Brinkley. He served as governor of Kansas from 1931 to 1933. He then married Helen Coolidge and served as Assistant Secretary of War from 1933 to 1936, with supervision over procurement matters. He was promoted and served as Secretary of War under President Franklin Roosevelt from 1936 to 1940. He projected the recommendations of his predecessor for increasing the strength of the Regular Army, National Guard, and the Reserve Corps. During his tenure he directed a revision of mobilization plans to bring personnel and procurement into balance and stressed the need to perfect the initial (peacetime) protective force. A non-interventionist, he was asked to resign in 1940 after disagreeing publicly with the administration's policy of shipping war materials to Britain. Woodring ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Kansas in 1946, and for the Democratic Party nomination for that post in 1956. He died following a stroke in Topeka, Kansas on September 9, 1967. He is buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Topeka, Kansas.
Book Synopsis Harry Hines Woodring Papers by : Harry Hines Woodring
Download or read book Harry Hines Woodring Papers written by Harry Hines Woodring and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring and the Problems of Readiness, Rearmament and Neutrality, 1936-1940 by : Keith Donavon MacFarland
Download or read book Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring and the Problems of Readiness, Rearmament and Neutrality, 1936-1940 written by Keith Donavon MacFarland and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the Secretary of War by : Harry H. Woodring
Download or read book Report of the Secretary of War written by Harry H. Woodring and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Address by Harry H. Woodring, Governor of Kansas by : Kansas. Governor (1931-1933 : Woodring)
Download or read book Address by Harry H. Woodring, Governor of Kansas written by Kansas. Governor (1931-1933 : Woodring) and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Address of the Honorable Harry H. Woodring, Secretary of War, at the Site of the Great Salt Plains Dam, Cherokee, Oklahoma, October 11, 1938, at 11:00 A.m. Central Standard Time by : Harry Hines Woodring
Download or read book Address of the Honorable Harry H. Woodring, Secretary of War, at the Site of the Great Salt Plains Dam, Cherokee, Oklahoma, October 11, 1938, at 11:00 A.m. Central Standard Time written by Harry Hines Woodring and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Message of Governor Harry H. Woodring to the Kansas Legislature by : Kansas. Governor (1931-1933 : Woodring)
Download or read book Message of Governor Harry H. Woodring to the Kansas Legislature written by Kansas. Governor (1931-1933 : Woodring) and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harry Hines Woodring written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Inaugural Address of Harry H. Woodring, Governor of Kansas by : Kansas. Governor (1931-1933 : Woodring)
Download or read book Inaugural Address of Harry H. Woodring, Governor of Kansas written by Kansas. Governor (1931-1933 : Woodring) and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Message of Harry H. Woodring by : Harry Hines Woodring
Download or read book The Message of Harry H. Woodring written by Harry Hines Woodring and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Harry H. Woodring Speaks by : Francis W. Schruben
Download or read book Harry H. Woodring Speaks written by Francis W. Schruben and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis U.S. Army Recruiting News by : United States. Adjutant-General's Office
Download or read book U.S. Army Recruiting News written by United States. Adjutant-General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Louis Johnson and the Arming of America by : Keith D. McFarland
Download or read book Louis Johnson and the Arming of America written by Keith D. McFarland and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-04 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Without question this is an important new addition to World War II and Cold War historiography.... Highly recommended." -- Douglas Brinkley, author of Dean Acheson: The Cold War Years and The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey beyond the White House "A remarkably objective, yet sympathetic, study of Louis Johnson's life and career. Now only half-remembered,... Johnson was a major national figure. Colorful, aggressive, independent-minded, egotistical, his strong views and conflicts with Dean Acheson proved to be his undoing. All in all, a fascinating tale." -- James R. Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense "McFarland and Roll have performed a real service in rescuing from obscurity this Democratic mover and shaker. Their account of the rise and fall of Louis Johnson provides us with the fullest depiction yet of an important Washington figure employed for better or worse as a blunt instrument of policy change by both Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman." -- Alonzo L. Hamby, author of Man of the People: A Life of Harry S. Truman and For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s "[Johnson's] career is a cautionary tale of how even the most ruthlessly effective men can become pawns in the Washington power game. McFarland and Roll bring Johnson to life in this thorough and well-told history." -- Evan Thomas, Newsweek, author of Robert Kennedy: His Life and The Very Best Men: The Early Years of the CIA Louis Johnson was FDR's Assistant Secretary of War and the architect of the industrial mobilization plans that put the nation on a war footing prior to its entry into World War II. Later, as Truman's Secretary of Defense, Johnson was given the difficult job of unifying the armed forces and carrying out Truman's orders to dramatically reduce defense expenditures. In both administrations, he was asked to confront and carry out extremely unpopular initiatives -- massive undertakings that each president believed were vital to the nation's security and economic welfare. Johnson's conflicts with Henry Morganthau, Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring, Winston Churchill, Harry Hopkins, Dean Acheson, Averell Harriman, and Paul Nitze find contemporary parallels in the recent disagreements between the national defense establishment and the State Department.