Word: naval
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would be a sad denouement to a once sparkling career. Before his appointment to the NSC, Poindexter was considered the model of the fast-track Navy officer. His superiors seem to have marked him early as a potential Chief of Naval Operations -- a position that was long thought to be Poindexter's own goal -- and to have carefully groomed him for the job through a judiciously chosen mixture of Washington assignments and sea-duty posts...
...then destined for greater things." The son of a banker, John Marlan Poindexter grew up in Odon, Ind. (pop. 1,400), described by Richard Poindexter as a "very conservative, Bible-belt community." A thin, shy and bookish child, Poindexter was an exemplary student who won appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy from the late Republican Senator Homer Capehart. Poindexter's mother Ellen recalls that the Senator once sat in the family's living room on a Sunday afternoon and told John that "he hadn't had very good luck with boys from Daviess County." That statement, she believes, was "part...
...days after his graduation from Annapolis, Poindexter married Linda Goodwin, a college student he had met while traveling with the Naval Academy debating team. In John's first year at Caltech, Linda bore the first of five sons, who now range in age from 27 to 16. Linda is as outgoing as John is reserved. "On personality tests we are on the opposite ends of the spectrum," says she. After their children started leaving home in 1980, Linda began studying for the ministry. She was ordained an Episcopal priest last December, and is associate pastor of a church in Gaithersburg...
...later posting, the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., that North caught the attention of Navy Secretary John Lehman, who was impressed by a paper the young major wrote about the uses of the modern battleship. Lehman recommended North to National Security Adviser Richard Allen, who hired him for the NSC's Defense Policy Staff...
Poindexter thought North was too emotionally involved with the contras and tried to get him transferred to the Naval War College. In mid-1986, McFarlane, in a computer message to Poindexter, proposed that "in Ollie's interest I would get him transferred or sent to Bethesda for disability review board...