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...only answer to guys like Cunningham is the old favorite, "Okay, Mac, what's your story?" Personality, we've never seen any startlingly constructive ideas in all of Bill's arm-chair criticisms of the Field Administrator, and other war activities. From one who heard him speak publicly we understand that at the conclusion of his talk, less than 100 men remained from an audience of 1300, out of "respect" for a verbose and rather crude tongue...
Says Van Atta: "I'm [now] probably the greatest living authority on Mac-Arthur's strength and able to assert most solemnly that it's still terrific...
...argument is simple. Neither John Bricker nor any other reliable Republican wheel horse can beat Roosevelt in wartime. But "the people will really be voting for a Commander in Chief rather than for a President, and there are no credentials equal to Mac Arthur's upon that score." Clincher is the Washington-Jackson-Har-rison-Taylor-Grant-T. Roosevelt tradition of soldier heroes who have been swept to the White House on crests of military glory. Vandenberg is prudently holding his tongue in public "until the proper time...
Pearl Harbor found the U.S. Army with no real air transport beyond its long-starved domestic system (for inter-airdrome deliveries of engines, propellers and other freight). In January 1942, President Roosevelt ordered two squadrons of the 7th Heavy Bombardment Group to Mac-Arthur's relief, via the South Atlantic, Africa and India. To a friend one of the pilots of a 7th Group Liberator wrote: "The total weight of my plane was over 60,000 Ib. [standard maximum, 56,000]. I believe that was the first time an air unit ever moved with all its equipment...
...victory by the rest of the team at Governor Dummer was possible because of the experience of the Crimson attackmen. Mac Osborne led the Harvard squad with four goals and was followed by John Rogers and Jack Romer