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Memoirs of a five-star admiral in the U. S. Navy, an authoritative work on strategic planning and decision-making by the U. S. Military during World War II. William Daniel Leahy, five-star admiral in the United States Navy. After the United States entered World War II, he assumed the newly created position of Presidential Chief of Staff and chaired the U. S. Army's Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was the de facto first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and participated in a series of major military decisions of the Allied Forces during World War II. In 1944, he became the first officer in U. S. History to achieve the rank of five-star general. "Being There" is the memoir of General Leahy, compiled and written based on his diary. It is an authoritative work on the strategic planning and decision-making process of the United States during World War II. The book records in great detail Leahy's presiding over the U. S. Army's Joint Chiefs of Staff, the British-U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff's meeting, and his participation in the highest-level political meetings of the allies, which is of great historical value.