Word: shoup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy's competitive instincts were aroused by an old T.R. order requiring that all Marine Corps company officers be able to march 50 miles in 20 hours, double-timing the last 700 yds. Marine Commandant David M. Shoup, a physical-fitness bug, had dug the order out of the corps files, sent it on to Kennedy as a curiosity. Replying to Shoup, History Buff Kennedy noted: "President Roosevelt laid down such requirements not only for the officers of the Marine Corps but, when possible, for members of his own family, members of his staff and Cabinet, and even...
Kennedy suggested that Shoup see if the Marines of 1963 could match their counterparts of 1908. Shoup promptly promulgated plans for at least 20 officers at the Marine base at Camp Lejeune, N.C., to set out this week in dungarees, boots, helmets and 24-lb. packs on the 50-mile, 20-hr. hike. Semper paratus, one 49-year-old lieutenant colonel got off to a head start, cut 6½ hours off the time limit. Kennedy indicated that if the Marines passed their test he would do something about measuring the fitness of his rather sedentary White House staff...
...hillsides. The strip between the main line of resistance and the fence was seeded with thousands of mines. Heavy 62-ton tanks were brought into position; so were antitank vehicles the marines call "The Thing"; each packs six 106-mm. recoilless rifles. Said Marine Corps Commandant General David M. Shoup, after flying in last week for a look at the defenses: "I think I'd rather be on this side of the fence than that side...
General David M. Shoup, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps LL.D...
...lined with two rows of Senate pages handing out bright orange programs. The house was full: on hand were 76 Senators (enough to override a presidential veto), Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and William Brennan, Postmaster General J. Edward Day, USIA Chief Edward R. Murrow, Marine Commandant David M. Shoup, and some 400 lesser lights-all gathered for a private movie showing of Advise and Consent, based on Allen Drury's novel about the U.S. Senate...