William Taft actually said...

The ultimate personnel would reach 3,000 line officers and midshipmen and 60,000 enlisted men; but under the measure as drawn, the full auth...

The effect of the proposed measure would be to promote officers to the grade of captain at an average age of 46 or 47, and to make the avera...

Considerations of proper military efficiency, as well as a due sense of national dignity, and self-respect, as befitting this great nation, ...

The creating of higher ranking flag officers is a military necessity.