The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
"Henry Lewis Stimson" was an American statesman, lawyer and History of the Republican Party (United States)/Republican Party politician and spokesman on foreign policy. He served as United States Secretary of War/Secretary of War (1911–1913) under Republican William Howard Taft, and as Governor-General of the Philippines (1927–1929). As United States Secretary of State/Secretary of State (1929–1933) under Republican President Herbert Hoover, he articulated the Stimson Doctrine which announced American opposition to Japanese expansion in Asia. He again served as Secretary of War (1940–1945) under Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, and was a leading hawk calling for war against Germany. 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 Gross domestic product/GDP on the Army and the Air Forces, helped formulate military strategy, and took personal control of Manhattan Project/building and Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki/using the atomic bomb.
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