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Article: The father figure: Dwight Eisenhower.(Special Report: The Strategists of War)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 16, 1998
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MacArthur "could never see another sun . . . in the heavens," said an officer who served as his aide in Washington and Manila. "I studied dramatics under MacArthur for seven years," this officer wisecracked. In fact, Dwight Eisenhower became an even greater "sun" than his former boss by perfecting a diametrically opposite leadership style.
Eisenhower's early years had held few clues to his destiny. The third of a creamery worker's seven children, at West Point he had stood out at first as a hard-running, hard-hitting halfback. But a knee injury sidelined him. His grades fell; he earned demerits by smoking Bull Durhams he rolled himself and graduated 61st in his ...