Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's seventh and busiest week in office was a good example of why he needed to set aside one afternoon a week for quiet thought. First & foremost was the news from Russia, which required several extraordinary conferences with top intelligence and diplomatic aides. General Van Fleet came in to give his Chief a half-hour briefing on Korea and receive his fourth Distinguished Service Medal. Anthony Eden paid an informal call on his way in from the airport, later lunched with the President. The Foreign Ministers of Norway and Saudi Arabia conferred lengthily with the President. Even Dictator...
...questioning, Ike was frank and unflustered. He disagreed bluntly with Van Fleet's proposal to extend the draft. If McCarthy and his investigations strayed too far from their proper pastures, he would comment on them; meanwhile, he said, it would be improper to express an opinion. Only once did the President's voice show a slight edge-when he emphatically denied a rumor that there was a rift between Bob Taft and himself...
...Capitol Hill one day last week, members of the Senate Armed Services Committee threw a barrage of friendly questions at strapping General James A. Van Fleet, 60, who had just returned to the U.S. for retirement from active service after 22 months in command of the Eighth Army in Korea. Democrat Lester Hunt of Wyoming was worried by persistent reports that the Eighth Army's ammunition stocks were low. Said Van Fleet: "There has been a serious shortage of ammunition ever since I have been in Korea. There has been a critical shortage at times. There is today...
...with rage, he shouted, his features distorted, he sharply motioned with his hand and poured invective into the face of his secretary who was trembling and paling as if struck by heart failure." Wrote Biographer Boris Souvarine: "This repulsive character . . . cunning, crafty, treacherous but also brutal, violent, implacable ..." Said Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, who met Stalin at the Teheran conference: "Most of us, before we met him, thought he was a bandit leader who had pushed himself to the top of his government. That impression was wrong. We knew at once that we were dealing with a highly intelligent...
...sent a mob of his supporters to storm the Assembly chamber. Aspirant Chang took refuge in a U.S. Army hospital. Rhee threatened to pull out a couple of ROK divisions from the line to back up his police, hesitated only when his good friend, Eighth Army Commander Van Fleet, flew to Pusan and told the President that this would mean an open rupture with the U.N. forces. When the Voice of America commented on his action, Rhee cut it off the air and invoked a censorship of news and publications. To an official note of protest from...