Eric Byrd’s Reviews > On the Treadmill to Pearl Harbor: The Memoirs of Admiral James O. Richardson > Status Update

1938: Now a bureau chief assigned to Washington, and an uneasy courtier. "The President wanted about him an aura of praise, approval, and happiness and, insofar as he could, he avoided seeing an associate whom he had doublecrossed, a favorite who had offended him, or one whose services he wished to dispense with."