Sending USS Texas to Mexico as part of an American occupation force is treated as a politically blunt choice. The reaction jokes that somebody in the War Department threw away their copy of How to Win Friends and Influence People. The operation and its date are not identified in this exchange.
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USS Texas with an occupation force in Mexico
Sending USS Texas to Mexico as part of an American occupation force is described as a conspicuously blunt choice.