Edward Farley Aldrich, The Partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson, and the Extraordinary Collaboration that Won WW II from ww political Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 38 min 52 sec
✓ Published: 02-Jun-2022

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On September 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland to launch World War II, Gen. George Marshall was sworn in as chief of staff of the U.S. Army. Ten months later, Roosevelt appointed the prominent 73-year-old elder statesmen Henry Stimson secretary of war. The general and the secretary traveled very different paths to power. Educated at Phillips Academy, Yale, and Harvard Law, Stimson joined the Wall Street law firm of Elihu Root and served as U.S. Attorney for his friend President Theodore Ro