Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make do in a commodious brick mansion at Fort McNair. When the new Joint Chiefs were appointed last May, Collins saw trouble ahead. If Admiral Arthur Radford, new boss of the JCS. followed Bradley's precedent and moved into Quarters I, Collins reasoned, then General Matthew Ridgway, Collins' own successor, would probably pre-empt the house at Fort McNair, and Collins would be househunting again...
General Matthew Ridgway, in a farewell chat with correspondents at Roquencourt near Paris before turning over his SHAPE command to General Alfred Gruenther, aired some philosophical thoughts. Driving to headquarters that morning, he had found the highway crammed with vacation-bound motorists bearing camp chairs and tennis rackets, and "it just sort of puts things in a little better perspective. This turnover of command this morning, which has a rather important place in my thinking and in General Gruenther's . . . really doesn't make much difference to the rest of the world-they're bound...
Packing his bags in Paris last week, outgoing Supreme Allied Commander Matthew Ridgway, off to become Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, presented his successor, General Alfred M. Gruenther, with a new command setup and a few new commanders...
...General Matthew Ridgway...
...Ridgway on the peace offensive: "I know of no facts which would lead me to conclude that the military danger from the East has lessened ... As a soldier, I cannot afford to deal with conjecture...