The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Distinguished Service Medal to Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson, United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility to the Government of the United States as Chief of the Bureau of Engineering and later as first Chief of BuShips and as Coordinator of ship building from September 1939 through January 1942; and as Chief of Procurement and Material from February 1942 through August 1945. Admiral Robinson initiated with daring imagination and great resourcefulness the largest ship building program the world has ever known at a time when this nation and our Allies urgently needed ships. From February 1942, Admiral Robinson was called upon to establish and develop an organization to serve as liaison between the Navy and the industrial front. As a member of the Production Executive committee of the War Production Board, he also worked with various other Governmental agencies, applying his splendid mind and driving energy to solving the many complex problems involved, and was directly instrumental in insuring an uninterrupted flow of materials vital to the production of ships, planes and other munitions.