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...George Catlett Marshall...
...variation of an old Democratic dream. For months, various Democrats have been whispering in Ike's ear that he could have the Democratic nomination for the asking, and save himself a battle with Taft in the convention. One of the influential voices belonged to General George Catlett Marshall, Ike's old boss. In 1948 Marshall discouraged Ike from running, but now-although he is not a strong party Democrat-Marshall wants Ike to head off any possibility of a Taft-administered foreign policy...
...answer to an unusual mid-morning summons, 17 reporters trotted upstairs from the Pentagon pressroom to the Secretary of Defense's third-floor office. They found George Catlett Marshall, trim in a blue-grey double-breasted suit and dark tie, smiling genially. He waved them to seats, crossed one leg over the other, and he broke his well-kept secret: "My resignation as Secretary of Defense takes effect...
...Secretary of State in 1947, he urged Lovett to come back from Wall Street to be his Under Secretary. Although Lovett was still recuperating from a serious operation, he came, commenting: "There are only three people to whom I can never say no -my wife, Henry Stimson and George Catlett Marshall." Half the time Lovett ran the department while Marshall was away in Europe. In 1948 Lovett was quick to see the implications of the Russian blockade of Berlin, strongly backed the Berlin airlift as a counterchallenge. A few months later he saved Harry Truman from a major diplomatic blunder...
...Wedemeyer Report. He had already put in for retirement, and he was in a position to talk freely. He did. Wedemeyer tossed a cord of fresh logs on to the dying bonfire of the MacArthur controversy, bluntly criticized not only Dean Acheson but also his own old friend, George Catlett Marshall. And he had a startling plan for dealing with world Communism: abandon the Korean campaign and come to an open break with the U.S.S.R...