Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

MacArthur, Draper, and the liaison to the Japanese imperial family, Bonner Fellers, all literally reported to Hoover—whether they were supposed to or not. Not only were they conservatives and loyalists who distrusted the Truman State Department, but, between Roosevelt’s death in 1945 and Truman’s inauguration in 1949, the Chief was also the most recently elected president.