War Office, War Department Quotes
Suggesting that the War Office be less euphemistic, hiding the horrors of war he proposed signs of the office doors. In 1799 the same article appeared again under the name of Dr. Benjamin Rush who may have plagiarized the original or, as some argue, may have actually authored the 1792 article.
In subsequent years military officers got around this restriction by privately expressing confidential opinions to members of Congress and the press. In the Iraq war for example most senior military officers felt that more troops were needed in Iraq. However, since the President decided on the final troop count only one official, the Army Chief of Staff, has publicly expressed the view that it was insufficient. He was retired early. The stricture still stands.
First woman to receive the British Order of Merit. Nightingale was a great and prolific writer, and nothing attracted her ire worse than bureaucracy. See {614057}.
Note the powers and level of cooperation the President gave to his commission. In the next hundred years, Presidents would reach the point where no commission—not even a Congressional Investigation—can have access to all documents of any major department.
The FDR administration was the first that allowed women to serve in executive and high level management positions of the government. Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor, was the first American female cabinet minister. Most people in America had not known that there were female executives in the government until Mrs. Roosevelt wrote this column. While the majority of Americans seemed to support this idea, there were religious and cultural conservatives who were much opposed, and pointed to this as another way in which the Roosevelts were “undermining the traditions of America.”
This was the order for the dropping of the first Atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
First woman to receive the British Order of Merit. For a man to so criticize the War Office would have been very “cheeky” at the time, but for a woman to do so was unheard of. Her characterization of bureaucracy, in a cabinet level department is as good a description of bureaucracy as any since. See {614056} for her castigation of the chief bureaucrat.
The Confederate War Department was directly giving instructions to other officers in his command. Jackson was about to resign. Lee had not yet been given command of all the Confederate forces, and one of his great contributions was to be a buffer between Jefferson Davis and his War Department vis a vis the Senior Confederate officers. See for another example of the friction in the Confederacy.
