Leaving professional things to professional people has always been John's way of doing things. Davis and Philip are veterans of the White House for many years. After learning about John's plan, they quickly filled in all the details of the arrangement with ease, and they didn't want him to worry about it at all. Even John's only concern, communication with Colonel Bildell, was smoother than he had previously thought.

It stands to reason that John and Beard have never crossed paths before, and those small contradictions between the Navy and the Army are not involved in him, and this time he went to see each other on official matters personally explained by Roosevelt, so there should be nothing to worry about.

However, recently, there have been some conflicts between the Kaiser shipyard and the Ingalls shipyard (Ingalls only converted to the production of military ships after the 50s, and was mainly engaged in merchant ship manufacturing) because of the rush to seize the order for escort aircraft carriers. It is said that one of Ingalls's heavyweight directors was so angry that he suffered a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. And this director, who has a not very good heart, is none other than Colonel Bildell's own father.

John knew that Beard must have known his identity as a shareholder in the Kaiser shipyard. If the other party wants to take the opportunity to make things difficult for him and make two small stumbling blocks, he can fully understand. Changing places, if someone hospitalizes his own father, John will definitely not let the other party go.

Besides, Colonel Beard is fully capable and confident to let John suffer such a dumb loss. Unlike technical aides such as Davis and Philip, Beard, who controls the daily information communication channels between the White House and the Navy, actually plays the role of Roosevelt's spokesman in the Navy. Don't look at the military rank and the same as John, he is a real big man who spans the military and political terms, and his power and influence are not a little higher than John's.

To give a simple example, Colonel Beard was one of only 12 people in the United States who had been qualified to read this information since August 1940, when American cryptography expert Friedman succeeded in deciphering Japan's highest-level diplomatic code (which was later known as the "magic" system).

In addition to these twelve people (the other 11 are: President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Hull, Secretary of War Stimson, Army Chief of Staff Marshall, Secretary of the Navy Knox, Chief of Naval Operations Stark, Special Adviser to the President, Hopkins, Director of the Army Operational Planning Bureau Nevins, Army Intelligence Director Strong of the Army Operations Planning Bureau, Turner of the Navy Operations Planning Bureau, and Naval Intelligence Director De Wilkinson), even MacArthur and Kimmel are not qualified.

Even in the business world, John and Bill Delby only have a slight advantage in terms of the amount of wealth. In some specific fields, such as military industry, shipbuilding, steel, energy, shipping, etc., Colonel Bildell weighed much more than him. So, Beard really wanted to pinch John and be angry with his father. As long as it wasn't too much, John had to endure it.

In fact, although he felt a little wronged, John was still ready to take the blame for Kaiser before going to see Beard. Who let him make money from Kaiser.

Clinker, this meeting with Colonel Bildell actually went quite well. Although the other party seemed to be very busy, he talked to John with a cold face for a few minutes and sent him away. But Colonel Bildell gave everything John wanted, and arranged for a young naval captain to be in charge of the specific affairs.

With this result, John was already satisfied. People's fathers were hospitalized with anger, how could they still greet each other with a smile. It would be hypocritical and insidious for Beard to really have a good conversation with John. He didn't dare to deal with this kind of person.

With the help of professionals from the Navy, the Information Office, and the Secret Service, John had the entire plan in place at about 8 p.m. As soon as he sent the plan report to Hopkins, he was getting ready to leave work. He was told that all the secrecy and intelligence work related to the meeting had been taken over by the White House Office of Intelligence Coordination, which meant that he had to send a copy of the report to Donovan.

Originally, this kind of thing could be left to the White House messenger to do. Still, John decided to go to Donovan himself. As soon as the days were calculated, Stimson should have returned from the Philippines, but he didn't hear the news for a long time. John wanted to ask Donovan about what had happened in the Far East.

Second, today he just intercepted the British Hu at Roosevelt, and he has to ask Donovan to help with the next operation. Historically, the British did not pay off their debts in the Burma-India theater, and the Chinese expeditionary force suffered a lot of losses. Don't say it well at that time, and the following can't be implemented. Isn't Donovan already in Singapore, and he can ask him to arrange for someone to follow up on the implementation of the material transfer.

While he was wondering how to tell Donovan about this for a while, in the hallway of the White House, John was confronted by an angry admiral. Colonel Beard was on his heels with a big hooked nose, trying to persuade him. They appeared to have just come out of President Roosevelt's office.

Probably thinking that John was full of salutes, the admiral glared at John before walking past him. John went through it in his mind, this guy should be the current commander of the US Pacific Fleet, Admiral Kimmel. But now, what is this unlucky guy (in a few months, this admiral will be the scapegoat for Pearl Harbor) to come to the White House?

With a stomach full of questions, John drove to Donovan's office on E Avenue at the top of Navy Hill.

"This kind of trivial matter, you still want to run it yourself?" Donovan took the file and asked curiously.

"By the way, I still have something I want to ask you." During this time, John met with Donovan a lot. The relationship between the two has improved a lot compared to when they were in London before.

"Wait a minute, I just have someone here who wants you to meet." With that, Donovan instructed the secretary at the door: "Go next door and call Joseph." ”

"Joseph, which Joseph?" John asked curiously as he handed over his tie.

After a while, I saw a tall young man push the door and walk in. It was none other than JFK Sr.'s eldest son, the eldest brother of the future President Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy Jr.

"Joseph, long time no see." John was pleasantly surprised to hug this little brother of his. Last year, on the ship back from England, he tried to fool Kennedy Jr. into engaging in psychological warfare. He also asked the other party to sign his own report on psychological warfare.

"Why are you here with Bill?" John asked in surprise. When the report was handed in, the response was good at first. The head of Army Intelligence, Strong, also consulted him specifically about the matter. But as he went to serve in the 82nd Division, there was no news about it. Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, this kid ran to Donovan.

"My father still didn't approve of me joining the army. It just so happened that Mr. Donovan had someone here, so I came over. Kennedy Jr. said with a smile.

"I think it's interesting what kind of psychological warfare you did before, Strong doesn't know anything about the goods, so I got Joseph to me." Donovan also explained, "It's good that your plan just now also involves this aspect, so I called him over to study it together." ”

John nodded, after all, Kennedy Sr. had been an ambassador in Britain for so many years, and he still had some connections in Europe. Kennedy Jr. couldn't go to the Army, and it wasn't bad to get to Donovan's side. Anyway, as soon as the Strategic Intelligence Bureau was established, all these people under Donovan would automatically be transferred to active military positions. Kennedy Jr. was more effective in his case, and it was better to be a bomber pilot in the past.

It's really interesting to think about it, this little task that Hopkins casually assigned to him actually made him meet Davis and Kennedy Jr. again.