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Reserve Officers at Camps and in night schools from 1920 to 1940, so I went
down to the Chief of Staff, General Marshall and told him I'd like to quit
the Senate and go into service as a Field Artillery Colonel and an
instructor in F.A. tactics. He asked how old I was and I told him I was
56 years ald. He pulled his reading glasses down on his nose, grinned at
me and said don't need old stiffs like you - this will be a young man's
war". He was right, of course, but it hurt my feelings and I decided to do
something for the war effort on a constructive basis.
ARCHIVES *NATIONAL RECORDS AND
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SERVICE'F
and
After we had appropriated about twenty-five billions of dollars
for National Defens I took my old coupe and begain inspecting camp construction
and naval installations from Maine to Florida and from Pennsylvania to New
Mexico, California, Washington and along both borders north and south. Some
30,000 miles were covered. This while the bitter Missouri election campaign was
on also.
On February 18, 1941 I made a statement to the Penate on what
I'd seen, and asked that a special committee be authorized to look into defense
expenditures. I believe that statement resulted in the saving of billions of
the taxpayers money and thousands of lives of our fighting men. A great deal
of difficulty was experienced in getting the Committee on Audit and Control to
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