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...made the coalition work, and some of his ablest and most loyal deputies were British. But the two top British generals -- Sir Bernard Montgomery, who commanded the Allied ground forces on D-day, and his boss, Chief of the Imperial General Staff Sir Alan Brooke -- ridiculed Eisenhower and conspired against him, sometimes with Churchill's compliance. Brooke and Montgomery argued that Ike was "no real director of thought, plans, energy or direction." Montgomery told Brooke: "He knows nothing whatever about how to make war or to fight battles. He should be kept away from all that business if we want...
Rostenkowski was born into the machine culture; his father Joe was a Chicago alderman and ward boss. After a brief fling at playing minor-league baseball, Dan served in the Illinois legislature before going to Congress in 1959. His wife LaVerne stayed in Chicago, so Rostenkowski commuted home on weekends. But for years he would stop first at city hall to brief Mayor Richard J. Daley on his doings...
...posthumously published diaries, H. R. Haldeman may have dulled his ex- boss's newly lustrous reputation
...annual rate of more than 20% in big cities, and unemployment is growing as the government shuts down inefficient state industries. Scattered worker protests and strikes have struck fear in Beijing that the authorities could lose control. A leadership succession struggle cannot be long postponed: top boss Deng Xiaoping is approaching his 90th birthday and ailing. In such an atmosphere, Beijing's chiefs will do anything they think necessary to keep a lid on disorder...
...graduate, we do not have the will to confront a tired and hardened world with our youthful vigor. We are non-confrontationalists, consensus builders. We want nothing more than to please the men and women who currently wield the real-world's power, whether they go by the name boss or parent. In short, there is a general spirit of conformist malaise about Cambridge these days...