You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

Secretary of State Allen Welsh Dulles a Director of Central Intelligence and Eleanor Lansing Dulles a diplomat and noted author. Marshall assume the powers of the presidency. New York State Senator Robert Lansing (1799–1878) was his grandfather; Chancellor John Lansing Jr.

He negotiated the Lansing-Ishii Agreement with Japan in 1917 and was a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at Paris in 1919. Lansing vigorously advocated against Britain's policy of blockade and in favor of the principles of freedom of the seas and the rights of neutral nations.