Early Life
Forrestal was born November 26, 1927 in New York City to James & Josephine Forrestal; his father later becoming the first United States secretary of defense of 1947, whose inauguration ceremony had taken place earlier than scheduled.
At age 18, Michael Forrestal received a naval commission after graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy, an independent boarding school in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1946. He later became President of the Board of Trustees of that institution; he remained in that position until his death. His naval commission meant he was appointed an assistant naval attaché in Moscow under Ambassador Averell Harriman. He later attended Princeton University for a brief period of time, before later going on to read law at Harvard University for four years until 1953. This qualification enabled him to gain entrance into Shearman & Sterling, an international litigation and arbitrational body, becoming a partner seven years later in 1960.
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