Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a dock at Norfolk, while white-clad sailors stood at attention on the flight decks of two flag-dressed aircraft carriers. Ike went ashore again, this time wearing a light, Truman-like Stetson hat to 1) confer with Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, commander of the North Atlantic Treaty naval forces, and 2) play golf at Sewells Point Golf Club, where he turned...
Order of Amnesty. He got in 18 holes more at the next stop, too-the Naval Academy at Annapolis-but not before attending Sunday chapel and appearing before the brigade of midshipmen, as it gathered at historic Bancroft Hall for luncheon. He didn't, he said, know quite what to say to them on a Sunday afternoon. "If I had taken you from a mathematics or engineering class, there might have been a little different aspect to the case. But today when it is chow time...
...seems a different story" Then, he added, grinning, that there would be at least a few who would "mark my visit with some satisfaction." He had just ordered an amnesty (a privilege only given Presidents and visiting heads of state) for 260 midshipmen facing punishment for minor infractions of naval academy rules. Said Ike with lifted eyebrows: "I didn't know there were that many offenders in the U.S. Navy." The delighted middies saluted him with a roar of applause...
...Chief of Naval Operations...
Family & Early Years: The son of a Navy commander, "Mick" Carney was born in Vallejo, Calif. A classmate of Radford at the Naval Academy, Carney was a boxer and swimmer and a superior student. During World War I, as a destroyer officer, he was cited for his part in the capture of a German submarine off the French coast...