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April 16, 1959: The Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization announced its new film FALLOUT - WHEN AND HOW TO PROTECT AGAINST IT. Watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_gTGB6-9BQ




April 16, 1947: financier and adviser to presidents, Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870-1965) coined (thanks to his speech writer) the term "Cold War" in describing relations between U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The occasion of his speech was the unveiling of his portrait at the South Carolina State House.

AUTHOR: Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870–1965)
QUOTATION:
Let us not be deceived—we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success. The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us.

ATTRIBUTION: BERNARD M. BARUCH, address at the unveiling of his portrait in the South Carolina legislature, Columbia, South Carolina, April 16, 1947.—Journal of the House of Representatives of the First Session of the 87th General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, p. 1085.

The phrase “cold war” was coined by Herbert Bayard Swope, who occasionally wrote speeches for Baruch, and was first used in this speech. It was popularized by, and sometimes mistakenly attributed to, columnist Walter Lippmann, whose 1947 book was titled The Cold War.

Baruch used the phrase again on October 24, 1947—“Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer”—in testimony before the Senate’s Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, part 42, p. 25740 (1948). William Safire, Safire’s Political Dictionary, pp. 127–29 (1978), gives an extensive account of the coinage and use of this term, though the date for Baruch’s testimony is given there as 1948.

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His parents were Belle (née Wolfe) and Simon Baruch, a physician, Confederate soldier and a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

In April 1917, after the United States had entered the First World War, Woodrow Wilson appointed Baruch to the War Industries Board, charged with directing the allocation of civilian and military war supplies. The next year he was appointed chairman of the board and dubbed by the public the "czar of American industry." At the War Industries Board, Baruch corresponded with Churchill, then serving as Minister of Munitions in the government of Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Much later Churchill noted that he and Baruch had “made friends over a long period of official cables, and have preserved these relations through the lengthening years of peace.” They did not meet for the first time until after the Armistice in 1918.

Winston Churchill and Baruch were personal friends and they exchanged more than 750 letters, meeting often over the decades.

In the 1920s Baruch was both an official and unofficial economic advisor to American presidents, Republican and Democrat. A “political kingmaker,” he contributed to presidential and senatorial election campaigns. Traveling to Europe every summer, he usually spent a few days in England with Churchill. His friend found no occasion to visit the United States until 1929, when, out of office, Churchill and his brother planned a visit to North America with their sons—Winston’s first in nearly thirty years.

In making arrangements, Churchill sought the help of Baruch, writing: “I shall greatly like to travel under your aegis and with your companionship.” The enthusiastic Barney arranged for local hosts in Los Angeles and other cities, found an expert to escort Winston over the Civil War battlefields of Virginia, provided an introduction to the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, and contacted leading Republican and Democrat politicians about Churchill’s visit to Washington, D.C. As Churchill and his party headed east from California, Baruch met them in Chicago and escorted them to New York aboard the financier’s private railroad car.

Black Tuesday

Upon reaching New York in October 1929, Churchill and his party stayed at the Savoy Plaza Hotel, where Baruch picked up the tab, and used an office in the Equitable Building that Baruch made available. Churchill continued his ill-fated speculating in the stock market. Encouraged by Baruch’s example, as well as by his confidence, Churchill invested freely, only to lose a small fortune when the market crashed on Tuesday 29 October. Churchill’s losses of more than $75,000 (about $1 million today) would have been greater were it not for his friend. As the scholar David Lough explained, Baruch felt some blame for Churchill’s misfortune and paid his friend $7200 to compensate for losses incurred using Baruch’s brokers. (Baruch himself was still able to report an income of almost $2 million for 1929.)

By 1903, Baruch had his own brokerage firm and gained the reputation of "The Lone Wolf of Wall Street" because of his refusal to join any financial house. Baruch was on the Cover of Time magazine for February 25, 1924; March 12, 1928; June 28, 1943.



Continental, Arizona, near Tucson a company town founded by Baruch's Intercontinental Rubber Company along with Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (patriarch of the Kennedy family), and J. P. Morgan to grow Parthenium argentatum aka guayule, an alternative source of latex that is hypoallergenic, used to make rubber. The name "guayule" derives from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word ulli/olli, "rubber". His partners in the enterprise were Senator Nelson Aldrich, Daniel Guggenheim, John D. Rockefeller Jr., George Foster Peabody and others.

Great Contemporaries: Bernard Baruch  | Wiki


April 16, 1945: USS Laffey came under attack by 2 dozen kamikaze. The ship shot down several aircraft but was struck by at least 6 planes and 4 bombs. Remarkably, the Laffey survived. In 2018, it was reported that Mel Gibson would direct a film about the Laffey titled DESTROYER. “Man, that is a great story. Somebody is doing it, somebody is developing it now,” Gibson said. He commented that the entire 90-minute attack on Laffey could be dramatized in real time. I guess that movie never materialized.


The ship earned the nickname "The Ship That Would Not Die" for her valiant exploits during the D-Day invasion and the Battle of Okinawa. Today, Laffey is a U.S. National Historic Landmark and is preserved as a museum ship at Patriots Point, outside Charleston, South Carolina. Does the ship & hull number look familiar? AFAIK, those who have visited have not disappeared.

Photos of the severe damage inflicted by the kamikaze attacks.

In 1946 she participated in the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll.
The ship was used in the 1984 John Carpenter film The Philadelphia Experiment.



Hmm, wonder what he'd say about the Red Sea situation.
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), named for Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, (1901–1996), is the lead ship of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers. Commissioned July 4th 1991; motto of the ship is "Fast and Feared". Filming for Season 3 of the Amazon TV show "Jack Ryan" took place onboard Arleigh Burke in October 2021. On 13-14 April 2024, Arleigh Burke and USS Carney shot down at least six Iranian ballistic missiles during the 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel.

April 16, 1944: USS Wisconsin (BB-64) was commissioned, five months after the Japanese had claimed to have sunk the battleship in "one of the biggest sea battles." The Japanese then reported that the new Wisconsin was a substitute to cover up the loss of the "real" Wisconsin.


December 10, 1943: The Evening News from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania


April 16, 1982: Margaret Thatcher and senior commanders meet at Downing Street to consider strategy for the ongoing Falklands crisis and to confirm Rules of Engagement. Some fascinating notes in here...



April 16, 1982: HMS Sheffield and HMS Brilliant transfer their nuclear depth charges to RFA Fort Austin. A standard Cold War piece of kit, it is considered unwise to take them to the Falklands, and like many others, these weapons are taken off... despite later Argentine claims.




USS Kentucky (SSBN 737) launching a Trident II D5 off the coast of California in 2015 for the Navy Strategic Systems Program’s 26th Demonstration and Shakedown Operation (DASO-26)...



That launch caused quite a stir. This guy got some fantastic footage, but had no idea what he was watching...




Pentagon: "We didn't start the fire"...


https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status...6579808269