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delivered at once, often to the recipients' homes if late in the evening.
Each agency sent its MAGIC copies on to the other with exemplary
promptitude, despite a natural competition between them.
As Bratton put it: "I was further urged on by the fact that if the Chief
of Naval Operations ever got one of these things before General Marshall
did and called him up to discuss it on the telephone with him, and the
General hadn't gotten his copy, we all caught hell." (Marshall demurred:
"I don't think I gave anybody hell much.")
Delivery to the White House and the State Department incurred
difficulties. Under an agreement of January 23, the Army and Navy at
first alternated in servicing the two. The Army, however, discontinued its
deliveries to the White House after its turn in May, partly because a
military aide made a security bungle, partly because it felt that these
diplomatic matters should go to the President through the State
Department
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