Unification had rubbed some of the luster off the post of Secretary of the Navy, and made it harder to fill. Last week when Harry Truman nominated Francis Patrick Matthews for the job, the first question Washington newsmen had to ask was: Who is he?
They soon found out: he was a bald, ruddy lawyer, a wealthy Omaha Democrat—and the third man considered for the job. Harry Truman had wanted North Carolina's Jonathan Daniels, whose father had been Woodrow Wilson's Navy Secretary. Daniels didn't want the job. Democratic National Committee Chairman J....
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