This post raises profound questions about the conventional history/historiography of James Forrestal’s final 13 months. Specifically: What happened to Forrestal that left Arthur Hill, then-Chairman of the National Security Resources Board (NSRB), saying he was “like everyone else, shocked and stunned” at Forrestal’s April 1948 Bethesda hospitalization? Why did a hospitalization of the sitting Secretary of Defense—an event that left NSRB Chairman Arthur Hill “shocked & stunned”—disappear from...