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Needed: An Eisenhower? In November 1943, Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt met with considerable fanfare at Teheran. There, it seemed, the political and military guidance of the world for 1944 had been charted. As the year wore on, the luster of Teheran began to fade. There was a general cry for another meeting of the Big Three-but there was also a demand for an inter-Allied political command, modeled on the military structure of the Combined Chiefs of Staff in Washington, or on the inter-Allied command machinery with which Eisenhower had planned and carried out the greatest achievement...
...YEAR 1944 IS THE COMMON FIGHTING MAN. LET TIME GLORIFY NO INDIVIDUAL POLITICIAN OR GENERAL WHOSE MOMENTARY FAME MAY QUICKLY FADE. THE ISSUES OF THIS YEAR ARE BEING DECIDED BY THE BLOODY SACRIFICES OF MILLIONS OF ORDINARY HEROES...
There was some reason to believe that the President's personal preference for the Morgenthau Plan would fade under the steady pressure of the two Cabinet officers who will actually have the most responsibility in the occupation of Germany. Furthermore, it might cost votes from those citizens who would prefer a more careful-and less vindictive-program for the re-education of Germany. And finally, it was of the highest political urgency that the latest Cabinet split be mended before Candidate Dewey hammered again at the "old, tired, quarrelsome" men of Washington...
...trembled at his disapproval. His 1928 denunciations of Al Smith helped to turn the Solid South toward Herbert Hoover. When his own church accused him of dabbling in Wall Street bucket shops, he wept publicly and pleaded for Christian forgiveness. The church forgave him but his fame began to fade. His first wife, mother of his nine children, died in 1928. In 1930, in London, after a trip through the Holy Land, he married his secretary, Mrs. Helen McCallum...
Result of these conferences was that MacArthur got all the Navy help he needed for the Hollandia assault, that stories of bickering between Army and Navy began to fade, even from the scuttlebutt...