Word: ridgway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ridgway's third marriage. The first two ended in divorce; with neither of his ex-wives is Ridgway on speaking terms...
...August 1949, after a tour as commander of the Caribbean area, Ridgway was brought back to the Pentagon to become deputy chief of staff for administration. (For a long time, Pentagon insiders have predicted that Ridgway will be Chief of Staff one of these days.) Paratrooper Ridgway pushed hard for building up the "vertical envelopment...
...aides at the Pentagon had no easier job than his officers in Europe. He would pound the desk with rage when someone gave him an evasive answer. Asked what it was like to work for Ridgway, an aide said, "Tense." "Ridgway tense?" "No," said the officer, "we're tense...
...office, Ridgway could relax. He likes small dinner parties, has a reputation as a conversationalist, compounds drinks with a generous hand...
...even the tidy Ridgway house (Quarters No. 7) at Fort Myer has the breath of military austerity. The living room looks like a room a man had decorated. There is not a paper or a letter showing in the pigeonholes of the desk. Until Christmas week, one of the sights of the post was the general and 21-month old Matt Jr. standing together on their porch at dusk, stiff as ramrods, saluting the colors...