“I'll never forgive the Army for not taking at least part of the blame for Pearl Harbor. That was why I didn't like Stimson.”

— Ernest King

King's comment after the war on Henry L. Stimson, who was United States Secretary of War during World War II, while speaking to Commander Walter Muir Whitehill, who wrote King's memoirs for him. As quoted in American Warlords: How Roosevelt's High Command Led America To Victory In World War II (2016), p. 473

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United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations 1878–1956

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