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...ARTFELD Staunton...
...Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va., but his lifelong loyalty was to New Jersey...
...Woodrow Wilson. Daughter Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, 69, recalled Wilson's triumphant return to his birthplace of Staunton, Va. shortly after his first election in 1912. Visiting with his ancient Aunt Janie, a "grim old Presbyterian" almost stone deaf, Wilson twice bellowed into her ear trumpet: "I've just been elected President." Digging him at last, Aunt Janie inquired: "Of what?" "Of the U.S.," shouted Wilson. "Don't be silly!" snapped Aunt Janie, indignantly dismissing him from her presence...
...LYNCH-STAUNTON...
Retiring from the Army in 1949, Jerry Persons became superintendent of Virginia's Staunton Military Academy, enjoyed watching his cadets grow up "like a damned fine garden." But in 1951 Ike called again; Persons went to France as liaison man at Supreme Allied headquarters, became the go-between for General Eisenhower and the scores of political emissaries urging Ike to run for President. Named White House congressional representative by President Eisenhower in 1953, Persons worked skillfully at a job that concerned him with everything, from the "control of the tsetse fly to foreign aid." Occasionally criticized for his soft...