The Propensity for Risk: Eisenhower in the Military and the Presidency

Abraham Zaleznik

Chapter 2 in Hedgehogs and Foxes, 2008, pp 9-21 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract On May 7, 1945, at 0241 local time, General Eisenhower sent a message to his command announcing Germany’s unconditional surrender. His superior officer, General George C. Marshall, wrote in reply to Eisenhower’s last wartime message: You have completed your mission with the greatest victory in the history of warfare. You have commanded with outstanding success the most powerful military force that has ever been assembled. You have met and successfully disposed of every conceivable difficulty incident to varied national interests and international political problems of unprecedented complications. Through all of this, since the day of your arrival in England three years ago, you have been selfless in your actions, always sound and tolerant in your judgments and altogether admirable in the courage and wisdom of your military decisions. You have made history, great history for the good of mankind and you have stood for all we hope and admire in an officer of the United States Army. These are my tributes and my personal thanks.1

Keywords: Republican Party; Press Conference; Court Order; Scarlet Fever; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230614154_2

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