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Incumbent U.S. Sen. Edward M.Kennedy'54-'56 and two Democratic candidates for governor -Michael J. Barrett'70 and Mark Roosevelt'78-were not the only Harvard alumni at the gathering of politicos. Two candidates for lieutenant governor and. many delegates, voters, and volunteers usedtheir Harvard connections to trade endorsements...
Incumbent U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 and two Democratic candidates for governor--Michael J. Barrett '70 and Mark Roosevelt '78--were not the only Harvard alumni at the gathering of politicos. Two candidates for lieutenant governor and many delegates, voters, and volunteers usedtheir Harvard connections to trade endorsements...
President Franklin Roosevelt approved and in April 1942 dispatched Marshall and presidential adviser Harry Hopkins to persuade Churchill in London. The great war leader of Britain and his generals certainly wanted the U.S. to defeat Germany first, before turning to Japan, and did not want to put off the Americans by disputing strategy. So the British agreed to the invasion of Europe as something they intended to do -- only not right away. With searing memories of the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940 and of horrifying losses at the Somme and Passchendaele in World War I, the British shrank from binding...
...American warriors were getting ahead of themselves. The Allies had neither the troops nor the landing craft needed to carry out Operation Sledgehammer or Roundup or the other code-named plans to invade France in 1942 or 1943. Yet to boost morale and reassure their voters, both Churchill and Roosevelt were determined to mount an offensive somewhere against the Germans before 1942 ended. They decided to invade North Africa to drive out the Italians and the German Afrika Korps, though Marshall and Eisenhower opposed the move as a diversion of resources...
...night of pea-soup fog in January 1944, Eisenhower arrived in London as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force that would invade the Continent. Roosevelt had decided he simply could not spare Chief of Staff Marshall, the man everyone assumed would command D-day. Instead the order signed by Britain and the U.S. went to Eisenhower: "You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces...