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...Among other things, Foote moves armies and great quantities of military information with a lively efficiency. This volume covers the final year of the war, from the campaigns in western Louisiana and Arkansas to the terrible endgame in the East, with Grant clamping down on Petersburg and Richmond and Sherman burning his way through the guts of the rebellion with his hard-war sayings: "War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it... I can make this march, and make Georgia howl...
Pleasure Expedition. Though a Southerner, Foote's judgments are evenhanded. He admires Sherman as an implacable tactician while amply describing the depredations that Uncle Billy's "bummers" committed as they marched to the sea. Sherman, says Foote, "hoped to keep nonmilitary damage to a minimum, but he made it clear that if guerrillas or other civilians attempted to interfere with his progress, 'then army commanders should order and enforce a devastation more or less relentless.' " Sherman's people got the idea. All over the countryside, Yankees were seen jamming rods into the earth, searching...
When I was running the first time and Sherman Adams got involved with that vicuña coat,* some very sophisticated people said, "This is going to be very tough for you." I said, "I don't think so. I think the people of New York are smart enough to know that somebody is not going to sidetrack me by giving me a vicuna coat." [As for the gifts to friends and associates], that used to be considered to be a decent thing. A lot of people repeat from the Lord's Prayer, "Forgive us our debts...
...foremost paranoid contact--who was bursting with 'I told you so's'--wasn't considered that good by experts). This one is on the Warren Commission, made by Mark Lane and the same Emilio De Antonio who made In The Year of the Pig and Milhous. At B.U.'s Sherman Auditorium Sunday night at 8 p.m. Lane will be there to show more footage and discuss the film...
...Sherman L. Holcombe, newly elected shop steward for the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Association, Local 186, received approval to present the grievance list to the University at a meeting of the employees yesterday...