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Some historiography remembers Henry #Stimson with much more admiration, incl'g for fathering what became the #Nuremberg trial, than it does John J. #McCloy. This Evan Thomas piece is, behind its headline, a good reminder not to romanticize or oversimplify. washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-o…
Some of Stimson's greatness in #FDR's and then, briefly, #Truman's, Cabinet during & right after #WWII was his Assistant Secretary of War, McCloy's (plus others'). And some of McCloy's failings were, above him, Stimson's.
(Yes, I know. Stimson & McCloy. This should really go viral.)
