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...moods of his fellow defendants were varied. Most were nervous, winced even at the mention of their names. Ex-Foreign Minister Ribbentrop looked broken and old, with a hurt, petulant look on his frozen face. Best show of austere indifference was given by former Chief of the Supreme High Command Wilhelm Keitel. Rudolf Hess, now officially pronounced an amnesia victim, was the most morose-looking of all, his green-tinged skin drawn tightly about his cadaverous skull. He tried to pass the time by reading Bavarian folk tales, but was much disturbed by stomach cramps, which made him rock back...
...Room of the White House, placed his hand upon his eldest son's Bible, and repeated the presidential oath "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." By the time the 37th President of the U.S. arrived at the Pacific, the 38th President had taken command...
...result, Ike almost missed that war too. Marshall insisted that he stay in the Pentagon drafting battle plans; Eisenhower lobbied to be sent to the front. Marshall finally relented and shipped him to England in 1942 to command U.S. forces there, even though he had never seen combat. Photogenic, affable and straight-talking, he turned out to be a press agent's dream-but a disaster as a strategist. Ike was too deferential to the British in North Africa and overly cautious in the Italian campaign; he became bogged down in squabbling with General Charles de Gaulle and Admiral...
...Some of his highest, and lowest, moments came in the 1952 presidential race, which he entered with feigned reluctance. The candidate did not have the nerve to repudiate Wisconsin's red-baiting Joseph McCarthy-even after he smeared General Marshall, Ike's patron-but otherwise took firm command of the campaign. He did, for instance, shrewdly overrule professional advice that he ignore the South and avoid making peace with his Republican rival, isolationist Senator Robert Taft of Ohio. He rejected right-wing Republican demands for a drastic escalation of the Korean conflict, and instead sealed his election victory...
Vice President Daniel Steiner '54 made the right first move by appointing University Police Capt. Jack W. Morse, Chafin's second-in-command, as interim security director. Morse is a fine administrator who can keep the department running at a high standard...