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“In March 1949 James Forrestal was replaced as Secretary of Defense by Louis A. Johnson, whose career had been closely connected with the Army Air Force. In April the keel of the United States was laid, and immediately Johnson cancelled the ship. The public and the US Navy assumed that this meant the end of the US carrier force, and Johnson went out of his way to confirm the impression. ‘Admiral,’ he told Admiral Richard L. Conolly, commanding in the Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean:”
― N.A.M. Rodger, The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815 – 1945