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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...
...used to the field mice, screech owls, coyotes and katydids." Searching Their Faces. Apart from his performance, his brusque manner and salty language has endeared him to the corps. An Indiana farm boy who took a math major at DePauw University and went directly into the Marines from ROTC, Shoup earned a Congressional Medal of Honor by directing the 2nd Marine Division in its bloody, 76-hour assault on Tarawa, despite a badly wounded leg. Terse and tough, he constantly urges his commanders to know their men better. He asks them: "Do you search the faces of your men every...
...meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Shoup is as outspoken as he is in running the corps. While he argued successfully for more marines, he has no grandiose ideas about the capabilities of the corps. Says he: "We can't do six or seven or eight divisions' worth of fighting, but we sure as hell can do three divisions' worth." After a JCS discussion on the use of chemicals to defoliate guerrilla hiding spots, Shoup dismissed the whole thing with the comment: "I've been using defoliants at my farm in West Virginia for years...
...Damn Good?" In recent weeks, Shoup has made headline news by his insistence to the Senate subcommittee on military "muzzling" that his marines do not need instruction about the theory and practice of Communism in order to fight Communists. All a marine needs to know about an enemy, says Shoup, is "how damn good he is" as a fighter. Nor does Uncle Dave have any opinion at all on where or when the Marines should fight. "Wherever the Commander in Chief sends us," he declares, "our equipment, weapons and training will stand us in good stead. Whether...