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President Truman fired off his first veto to the new 82nd Congress. It was promptly overridden by the House, which added that he used to feel differently about such things when he was plain Senator Harry S. Truman...
...This is the day," said Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, "that all of us who have fought for national defense have been waiting for." Last week, after months of wearying debate, the Senate finally came to grips with the first two major issues of the 82nd Congress: the extension of the draft bill (due to expire July 9) and the dispatch of troops to Europe. But before the week was out, the Congress seemed on the verge of making a hash out of one and a hedge out of the other...
Swinging his arms and sniffing the soft, springlike air, Harry Truman strode out on the White House portico and beamed admiringly down at the tough young men of the 82nd Airborne Division lined up beneath him. One from each state and territory, 52 in all, had come to meet the President. "It is a pleasure," he told the paratroopers, remembering that he had once gone up with the airborne people at Fort Bragg, N.C. "I didn't get to jump out," he confessed with real disappointment. "But I hope some day to do it." In his heel-kicking mood...
...next three years the 82nd's war diary read like a history of the development of airborne operations. Ridgway and his staff, with few precedents to go by, wrote their own field manuals as they went along. Ridgway jumped into battle with the division at Normandy, later led XVIII Corps at Nijmegen and the Ardennes. He had helped make airborne operations one of the Army's finest weapons...
...there fighting for democracy now. They are fighting because the platoon leader is leading them and the platoon leader is fighting because of the command, and so on right up to the top." A Pointer Is Stationary. Well into 1942, after the other officers of the 82nd Division had switched to jeeps, Ridgway reviewed troops mounted on a horse. The grenade that Ridgway now carries in his harness has caused as much comment among G.I.s and marines in Eighth Army as the horse did in the 82nd Division. Although the general is aware of the showmanship value of his grenade...