Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magazines, Architectural Forum and House & Home. Born in San Francisco, he was graduated from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1941 and, after four years in the Army, spent five years on the San Francisco Examiner before coming to Architectural Forum in 1951. In 1954, he went to work full-time for House & Home and rose to become managing editor before its sale in 1964. Next step was TIME, where he specializes in economic affairs. Outside the office, a major interest is the Blue Hill Troupe, which stages Gilbert & Sullivan operettas in the New York area. For Blue Hill, taxes...
After his son's death, Eisenhower returned to duty, burying his grief in work. The rewards were scarcely commensurate with the efforts. Ike's rise up the promotion ladder was painfully slow. In 1922, he was transferred to the Canal Zone?an inhospitable place in those days?where he became executive officer to Brigadier General Fox Conner, commander of the 20th Infantry Battalion. Next to Eisenhower's parents, Conner was probably the strongest influence in his life, introducing him for the first time to the serious study of military history and strategy. At West Point, Eisenhower remembered with distaste, this...
...assess the situation in the Philippines. Next, Marshall asked for a paper on the organization of U.S. forces in Europe. On June 8, 1942, Ike submitted a document entitled "Directive for the Commanding General, European Theater of Operations." On June 11, as commanding general for Europe, he went to work on his own recommendations. Marshall had persuaded President Roosevelt to reach deep down the seniority list for a man to lead the largest army that any nation in history had ever fielded. "Looks like I'm going to London next week," Eisenhower told his wife. "I'm going...
...acquiesced in his decisions, and on the big issues of war and peace, Eisenhower justified their faith. Though his Administration laid plans for the Bay of Pigs operation, leaving an enormous problem for its successor, it is unlikely that Ike, the meticulous technician, would have allowed the sloppy staff work that resulted in J.F.K.'s Cuban fiasco. And he would probably not have reacted as massively as Lyndon Johnson did in the Dominican Republic. By comparison, the U.S. intervention in Lebanon was refined and precise...
...train a President. But when you look at Ike's presidency from the perspective of time, lots of things the days hide are revealed by the years. You see that there were surprisingly few casualties required to train Eisenhower. There's nothing dramatic about the kind of work that Eisenhower did, so he suffers by comparison with the trombones-and-drums kind of President. But in terms of what service he performed, I would give him a B-plus...