Word: elsey
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Teresa E. Elsey ’04 said that she and a friend had been wondering about the speaker a few days...
...friend asked me, ‘Who did they choose as the speaker,’” Elsey said. “And I said, ‘I have no idea...
...diaries were allowed. No photographs, no recordings. Expendable papers were burned daily. So George Elsey's memory has become one of the great ledgers of America's wartime history. Elsey saw Roosevelt's original fervor for his maps and battle reports waste away with his health. Elsey saved a couple of papers with the President's signature; firm, strong in 1942, quaky and feeble by 1945. "When Churchill entered the room, he seemed to fill it," says Elsey. "His reputation, the aura that preceded him, was so great. We were in awe." Captain Ogden Kniffin, Elsey's Army counterpart, made...
...trooper, nearing 69, knew his war. In the Map Room in May 1943, Churchill asked Elsey about news from the submarine battle going on under the Atlantic. Elsey had just finished updating the map. "I just removed three black pins," the symbol for German subs, he told Churchill, who astonished the young American by jumping up and down and shouting, "We've got him! We've got him! We've got him!" The sinkings came about because the Allies had cracked the German secret code. Some experts would later agree the turning point in the war came...
Before Roosevelt left for Warm Springs, Ga., in March 1945, he asked for a map projecting the sectors in Europe for the first of May. Roosevelt died before he saw it. "The last map" was returned to the White House, and Elsey took it over, saving it from destruction. A few years ago he gave it back to the White House, and today it hangs over the mantel in the Map Room, now stately and elegant with its thick carpets and polished Chippendale furniture. Today's Presidents plan their wars in the Situation Room, built in the West Wing during...