"Did
I tell you abour our latest distinguished student? He's Mike Forrestal, son of the Secretary of
the Navy. Mike is here to study Russian
-- probably just a jump ahead of the draft.
He's a civilian and barely 18.
The kid has a lot of energy. And
he should do as well as his dad in politics.
When I was introduced to him he gave me the heartiest of handshakes --
as if he were never so glad to meet anyone in his life as me -- when somehow I
had the feeling he didn't care whether my name was Brown, Jones or Smith. I shouldn't have said that. Mike really seems to be trying to make
friends."
--Letter
from my father, Boulder, Colo., to his
family, Bloomington, Kans., Saturday, December 8, 1945. My father was right about Mike Forrestal. He went on to be a key advisor to McGeorge
Bundy, John F. Kennedy's national security advisor.
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