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Anyone who has been a military academy cadet, a cavalry private, an infantry sergeant, a submarine commander, an R.A.F. flyer and a prisoner of war should be ready for the role of Commander in Chief. Not to mention having been a Confederate captain, George Armstrong Custer, who became a Union general in the Civil...
...Police Cadet Freddy Jacobs testified that he saw Williams driving "really slow" and unusually close to the edge of the bridge that morning after another policeman had reported a loud splashing sound. Lieut. J.T. Campbell testified that he had helped recover Cater's body from the river two days later. In crossexamination, Williams' attorneys tried to show that the splash could have been made by a beaver. Later, Welcome pointed out that "no one even saw Williams' car stop that night on the bridge." Throwing the 146-lb. Cater from a moving automobile, she said, would have...
...morning had several touching moments. After the speech, Cadet Mark Hogan, president of the 1981 class, presented Reagan with a saber mounted on a wooden plaque. Then, while handing out diplomas to the top 50 graduates, Reagan found himself facing Michael Meese, 20, ranked 28th in his class and the son of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. With the cadet's proud father standing at his side, Reagan beamed and congratulated the youth. After the ceremonies, the President and Mrs. Reagan stopped to greet an invited guest and old Hollywood friend: Actor James Cagney, 81, who made Boy Meets Girl...
...backed down on enforcing civil rights against a rising tide of white terrorism in the South. McFeely faults Grant most sharply for failing to use his clout at West Point, where even Grant's son Fred joined in a harassment campaign against the academy's first black cadet. Closer to home, the Administration was muddied by scandal, notably the whisky tax swindle that bilked the Treasury of millions. Despite evidence gleaned by his own private detective, Grant refused to admit that a close adviser was one of the culprits...
Hyten adds, however, that Harvard can be an uncomfortable place for a ROTC cadet. "If you walk through Harvard Square in uniform, a lot of people make rude comments, like 'Oh, off to kill babies?' You're spit at a few times, but you get used...