Lieutenant Harllee was surprised to hear Kennedy was being sent to the combat zone, and assumed powerful strings had been pulled. “This suspicion was later confirmed when I had occasion to review his record in the Bureau of Naval Personnel in 1947,” remembered Harllee years later. He uncovered a paper trail revealing that “tremendous effort had been brought to get him into the combat zone.” Spotting a “smoking gun” letter signed by Kennedy family crony and U.S. senator from Massachusetts David I. Walsh, chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee and the most powerful member of Congress on
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