Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.

A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Cliché: "The MBA changed my life."What it really means: "A fantastic career, a great social life and a healthy bank balance...three of the things I had before I started the program.

A show of envy is an insult to oneself.

We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

My hits are not hits.

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.

The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots in the past and is almost universal.

I thought, how do you confuse violent Russian mobsters? Well, by being silly!