There has been growing quite a strain of irritating feeling between our government and the Russians and it seems to me that it is a time for me to use all the restraint I can on these other people who have been apparently getting a little more irritated.

As Secretary of State (1929–1933) under Republican President Herbert Hoover he articulated the Stimson Doctrine which announced American opposition to Japanese expansion in Asia. Roosevelt. During World War II he took charge of raising and training 13 million soldiers and airmen supervised the spending of a third of the nation's GDP on the Army and the Air Forces helped formulate military strategy and took personal control of building and using the atomic bomb.