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Adams drives himself and his staff to a frazzle. He works ten-hour days seven days a week. At his headquarters on Tampa's Mac-Dill Air Force Base, associates can recall seeing him in civvies only twice: once on a golf course, once in his office on a Sunday morning. He worked his staff on both Christmas and New Year...
...dank, dark weather, Douglas Mac-Arthur's body arrived in Manhattan...
Perfidy. According to Lucas, Mac-Arthur said that during the Korean War "every message he sent to Washington and every message sent by Washington to him was shown to the British by the State Department." Within 48 hours, the messages were "relayed by the British, either through India or through the Russian Embassy in London, to the Chinese Communists." Thus, said Lucas, the Chinese Communists "knew in advance every step he proposed to take," and, in fact, entered the Korean conflict only "after being assured by the British that MacArthur would be ham strung and could not effectively oppose them...
...Secretary of Defense during the Korean War, was "the errand boy of the State Department." General Matthew Ridgway, who took over command of United Nations forces after MacArthur's dismissal, was a "chameleon," who "did a complete flip-flop in 24 hours" when he discovered that Washington opposed Mac-Arthur's war strategy. General Maxwell Taylor was "an ambitious man who will never do anything to jeopardize his career...
Heartbreaking Restraint. No. 10 does not hold a candelabrum to the White House, and De Gaulle, after all, does live in a palace. No. 10's charm is the English quality of restraint. The Mac-millans, who lived during the restoration in nearby Admiralty House, held down tight on interior-decoration costs, winding up, for example, with walls of woven rayon instead of damask in some rooms. "I am heartbroken by the result," moaned Architect Raymond Erith...