Henry Quotes
The worst war crimes and atrocities of the Civil War took place at Andersonville. 13,000 Union prisoners of war were killed there. Capt, Henry Wirtz, the prison commandant, was tried and executed after the war.
Nixon had ordered the CIA to destabilize the economy of Chile. See {615581}.
This was just a month after the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Anyone at that time, who promised to attack Japan would get a serious hearing, and Chiang Kai-shek and the China Lobby were making extraordinary promises. FDR wanted to give Chiang’s Nationalist government an extraordinary $½ Billion in aid. One interesting aspect of this quotation is the wording. Note that the President used the word “invent”. He realized that there was no existing mechanism whereby they could simply send such a huge block of money to a foreign country on the promise that they would use it for fighting the Japanese. If there were, he would have had the War Department or the State Department to do it. So he asked his most trusted and creative cabinet member to “invent” a way to do it. Morgenthau came through with a very complicated, elaborate scheme that Congress approved the following week. The money was sent, but Chiang Kai-shek did not spend it all for fighting the Japanese—his idea was to let the Chinese Communists under Mao wear themselves down fighting the Japanese, and Chiang could use the American military assets to then wipe out the communists, his only political opponents. See {641676}.
Ford’s associate Henry Sorenson also was deeply involved with developing the concept of an assembly line. History has tended to give the credit to Ford as he was the boss. However, it is doubtful that either man thought of the concept independently by mutually and collegially developed and implemented the idea.
Shortly after Henry Morgenthau had become Secretary of the Treasury he held a press conference. A veteran reporter asked him very difficult, detailed technical financial questions which the Secretary had not been exposed to. He observed of the reporter, "You must be new here."
