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...talk to them.”As both a professor and an administrator, May was calm and thoughtful, yet genial in his interactions with others. “He would rarely say 10 words when he could make his point in eight,” Zelikow said.A native of Fort Worth, Texas, May ventured westward to UCLA for his undergraduate and graduate degrees before spending the Korean War working as an historian for the U.S. Joints Chiefs of Staff. In 1954, he arrived in Cambridge, where he would spend the rest of his professional life.As a young professor...
...cross-aisle appointments are never strictly olive branches. By tapping Republican Congressman John McHugh for Secretary of the U.S. Army, Obama has snatched away a stalwart member of the GOP's shrinking congressional delegation in New York state. McHugh, whose sprawling upstate district includes the Army base at Fort Drum, is the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee and a highly regarded military advocate. "John is a distinguished public servant who will help keep us safe and keep our sacred trust with our soldiers," Obama said. While McHugh's blood-red district is generally considered safe terrain...
...Elected as the Representative for New York's 23rd District in 1992. The district is New York's largest by area and includes the Fort Drum Army base...
...could TIME have excluded Ben Bernanke, whose composure and decisive action averted an economic catastrophe? Michael Matus, FORT MILL...
...after he took over, Gates summoned General David Petraeus - no favorite of Rumsfeld's - from near exile at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., where he had supervised the writing of a new counter insurgency-warfare manual. Gates was about to travel to Iraq and wanted to know what the big questions were. "The biggest question is whether we have the right strategic concept to fight the war," Petraeus told him. "Instead of concentrating all our efforts on transitioning to Iraqi control, we need to go out and secure the population." (See pictures of Basra getting back to business...