Word: commander
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Answer in Hand. Johnson's charms, his maneuvering ability and his genius for spotting political trends have given him a total command of the Senate matched by few majority leaders in history. He has long posed as the President's best friend in the Senate. But last week, with Ike's popularity at its lowest, Lyndon Johnson took on the President...
...Monstrous, Monstrous." Quick to notice detail, Montgomery commented that Union General George Sears Greene had been immortalized in stone wearing his spurs upside down, was relieved to discover that Union Commander George G. Meade wore his spurs correctly. But Meade came in for sharper criticism. "He was not very sure of what he was doing," said Monty. "He was not sure of himself." Ike explained that Meade assumed command only two days before the battle. "He didn't know the plans...
...some sharp words for both Civil War generals (the day before, at a luncheon speech in Baltimore, he announced that he would have fired them both). His estimate of the North's Meade: "He let that guy get away." As for Lee: "Lee did the worst job of command on that day." But the President, who firmly believes that Lee fought the Battle of Gettysburg because of political pressure from Richmond, was willing to forgive. "Looking at us," he said, "they might have criticized the way we fought our battles...
...weeks a sleek, needle-nosed model of the Matador guided missile has stood on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's desk in Taipei. He genially parried questions about it. So did Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll, chief of the U.S. Taiwan (Formosa) Defense Command, who also had a Matador model on his desk. Last week Chiang stopped his parrying and explained: Formosa's defenses now include a Matador missile squadron, the first in the Far East...
When his story ends at the start of the Italian campaign, Brooke is a bitterly disappointed man. With Ike having commanded the North African show, it seemed certain that a Briton would become Supreme Commander in Europe. In fact, Churchill had already promised the post to Brooke. Eisenhower, with a generosity that astonished Brooke, said it ought to be either Brooke or Ike's own hero, George Marshall. Brooke, by his own admission, was itching for the honor, and when it went to Eisenhower his bitterness was poured into his diary: "I felt no longer necessarily tied to Winston...