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William Daniel Leahy fue un oficial naval estadounidense y el primer Almirante de la Flota de la Marina de los Estados Unidos. Ocupó varios títulos y estuvo en el centro de todas las principales decisiones militares que Estados Unidos hizo en la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Como jefe de operaciones navales 1937-1939, era el oficial mayor rango en la Armada, supervisando los preparativos para la guerra. Después de retirarse de la Marina, fue nombrado como Gobernador de Puerto Rico en 1939 por su íntimo amigo el presidente Franklin D. Roosevelt. En su papel más controvertido, se desempeñó como embajador de Estados Unidos en Francia desde 1940 hasta 1942, pero tuvo poco éxito en mantener el gobierno de Vichy libre del control alemán.

Leahy fue llamado al servicio activo como Jefe de Estado Mayor para el presidente Franklin D. Roosevelt en 1942 y sirvió en esa posición durante toda la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Fue presidente el Estado Mayor y fue un importante decisor durante la guerra. Continuó durante la presidencia de Harry S. Truman hasta que finalmente se retiró en 1949. Desde 1942 hasta su jubilación en 1949, era el miembro de más alto rango de las Fuerzas Armadas de Estados Unidos, reportando sólo al Presidente.

El USS Leahy fue nombrado en su honor. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. mayo 1875 – 20. julio 1959
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“Everybody may have peace if they are willing to pay any price for it. Part of this any price is slavery, dishonor of your women, destruction of your homes, denial of your God. I have seen all of these abominations in other parts of the world paid as the price of not resisting invasion, and I have no thought that the inhabitants of this state of my birth have any desire for peace at that price, or that they lack the fortitude that is necessary to discourage aggression by the barbarians who are now about to be driven back to their kennels, or by any other savages who may arise at some later date against our civilized Christian world.”

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Commencement speech at Cornell College in Iowa on 5 June 1944, as quoted by Henry H. Adams in Witness to Power: The Life of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (1985), p. 246
1940s

“Perhaps there is some hope that its capacity for death and terror among the defenseless may restrain nations from using the atom bomb against each other, just as in the last war such fears made them avoid employment of the new and deadlier poison gases developed since World War I. However, I am forced to a reluctant conclusion that for the security of my own country which has been the guiding principle in my approach to all problems faced during my career, there is but one course open to us: Until the United Nations, or some world organization, can guarantee- and have the power to enforce that guarantee- that the world will be spared the terrors of atomic warfare, the United States must have more and better atomic bombs than any potential enemy.”

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Fuente: I Was There (1950), p. 442

“I was there.”

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Fuente: I Was There (1950), p. 1

“I did not see Julius Caesar's return to Rome, but I am sure that in comparison it looked like a deuce of spades.”

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Comment by Leahy on Douglas MacArthur's return to the United States after being relieved of command in Korea by President Harry S. Truman, in a 20 April 1951 letter to MacArthur's nephew Douglas MacArthur II. As quoted by Henry H. Adams in Witness to Power: The Life of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (1985), p. 342
1950s