President Truman's relief of General Douglas MacArthur April. Bradley informed the President of the views of the Joint Chiefs, and Marshall added that he agreed with them. Truman wrote in his diary that "it is of unanimous opinion of all that MacArthur be relieved. All four so advise." Later, before Congress, the Joint Chiefs would insist that they had only "concurred" with the relief, not "recommended" it. On 11 April 1951, President Truman drafted an order to MacArthur, which was issued under Bradley's signature: In a 3 December 1973 article in "Time" magazine, Truman was quoted as saying in the early 1960s: Although Truman and Acheson accused
Secretary-General to the President a claim Moynihan ridiculed in papers now available in the National Archives of Ireland. In the 1990s, the title of chief civil servant in the Irish government was changed from "Secretary to the Department" to "Secretary-General to the Department". The post of "Secretary to the President" however was left unchanged because the Office of the President was not technically a department. In 2004 a Bill was introduced into the Oireachtas to change the title from "Secretary to the President" to "Secretary-General to the President". The name change came into force in 2005. Secretary-General to the President The Secretary-General to the