Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.

There’s no reason for having a Navy and a Marine Corps. Epilogue
His political career at an end Johnson returned to his law practice which he pursued until his death in Washington D. 4 billion dollars and was progressively reduced in succeeding fiscal years until January 1950 when it was reduced yet again to US $13.

Born in Roanoke Virginia he earned a law degree from the University of Virginia. After graduation he practiced law in Clarksburg West Virginia; his firm Steptoe & Johnson PLLC eventually opened offices in Charleston West Virginia and Washington D. During World War I Johnson saw action as an Army Captain in France where he compiled a long report to the War Department on Army management and materiel requisition practices.