"Admiral: You do not seem to approve!"
— William D. Leahy

January 1, 1970

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Harry S. Truman's inscription on the back of Leahy's copy of a photograph of Leahy, Truman, Chester W. Nimitz, and Marc Mitscher on the bridge of Mitscher's flagship, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, on April 22 or 23, 1946. As quoted in The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King: The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea (2012) by Walter R. Borneman, p. 242-243