James Forrestal was an American psychologist, diplomat, and public servant. James Forrestal was born on February 2, 1892, near Staunton, Virginia. He graduated from Staunton Military Academy in 1909 and attended the University of Richmond, where he earned a B.S. in 1912
He then entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned an M.A. in 1913 and a Ph.D. in 1916.
Forrestal matriculated at Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, earning an M.A., which enabled him to join the United States Naval Reserve as an ensign in May 1917. By 1919 he had earned his master's degree at Harvard's new Extension Division (now the Extension Division of the Harvard Graduate School of Education) and had become assistant director of that division's Bureau of Child Hygiene; later that same year the department became the Bureau of Pediatrics and Child Hygiene -- a new division created by Secretary of War William Howard Taft -- with Forrestal as its first assistant director..
It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.James Forrestal
For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.James Forrestal
