Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman had not had such a vacation since spring. But despite the relaxed atmosphere, reporters thought they noticed something new about Harry Truman. There was an air of firmness, a new confidence in his bearing. President-elect Truman seemed determined to run his own show in his own way...
...staff ... He consistently refused to deal with a staff officer from any headquarters other than his own . . ." Like Patton, Monty frankly admitted his debt to Ike: "I know my own faults very well and I do not suppose I am an easy subordinate; I like to go my own way. But you have kept me on the rails in difficult and stormy times, and have taught me much...
...State for War, 1942-45) has written, Eisenhower had to put up with "not one but two geniuses-Patton as well as Montgomery . . . [not] an entirely unalloyed blessing." Ike leaves no doubt that he valued them both. He also leaves no doubt that they could, each in his own way, be irritating. Each time Patton made a boner, Blood-and-Guts would come to Ike close to tears, and promise not to do it again. Writes Eisenhower: "His emotional range was very great and he lived at either one end or the other...
...million men surged around Suchow in the greatest battle in China's history. A Communist victory would open the way to Nanking and probably seal the fate of the reeling Nationalist regime. A government victory might buy enough time for Chiang's harried forces to recover from their recent string of shattering defeats-and for effective aid to arrive from the West...
Captain Phil Potter and center halfback Don Louria, both playing the final games of their college careers, led the way as the Crimson outran and outpassed a game Yale team, which at no time was able to match the ball control of the varsity...