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In the Old Senate Chamber of the Annapolis State House last Friday, General George Washington, after nearly nine years as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, resigned his military commission before Congress. It was an emotional moment. By voluntarily yielding martial authority, Washington authenticated the American experiment in democracy...
ANNAPOLIS, Md.--The end was as frustrating as the middle and the beginning had been.
The commander of that force majeure, and of the Second Fleet, was Vice Admiral Joseph Metcalf III, Annapolis-trained ('51) and a recipient of the Legion of Merit. He made no secret of the fact that he was responsible for the censorship-and made no apologies either. Said Metcalf...
The descendant of a distinguished New England family, Fuller was the fifth generation of his family to go to Harvard. He was expelled in 1914 for blowing his tuition and expense money on a spree for the members of a Broadway chorus line. He worked in a Canadian machinery factory...
Secretary of the Navy John Lehman at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.: "We have had a true sea change of historic proportions in our nation. In a few short years the self-doubt, the post-Viet Nam syndrome of negativism, of antimilitarism, of loss of faith, have been...