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Family & Early Years: He was born on a 170-acre farm three miles southeast of Boulder, Colo, and 1,000 miles from the nearest ocean, of Swedish and Pennsylvania Dutch stock (his grandfather changed his name from Bjorkegren). The eldest of six children, Arleigh found his life was paced by farm chores. A sister remembers: "When he was four years old, he was out in the fields leading the stacking horse" when the hay was harvested. In an essay on military training, written in grade school, young Burke said: "This training teaches one of the greatest problems of success: discipline...
...surprise came when President Eisenhower named Rear Admiral Arleigh Albert Burke (see box) as Chief of Naval Operations to succeed Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney, 60, who will retire Aug. 16. Burke, 53, will be the second youngest C.N.O. (Forrest Sherman was nine months younger) in U.S. history. He is outranked (until he gets his four stars) by seven full admirals, 21 vice admirals and 64 rear admirals...
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...first meeting of the small group, Joy named Major General Henry Hodes and Rear Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke. The Communists named North Korea's Lee Song Cho and Red China's Hsieh Feng. That day only four allied newsmen went to Kaesong-one reporter, one photographer, one newsreel cameraman and a radioman. The Reds obliged by sending only four newsmen of their...
...kept officially silent about the Red proposals, but in an unguarded moment, Rear Admiral Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke implied that the U.N. had refused at the first meeting to discuss withdrawal of troops from Korea. Reason: that is a political matter, and the discussions are limited to military matters leading only to an armistice. Meanwhile, the U.N. is on record with its minimum truce conditions...