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The twin Pacific campaigns were long and brutal, and it’s telling that many veterans of the war who went on to political greatness earned their spurs in them. John F. Kennedy got shipwrecked in the Solomons (an island there is named after him). Lyndon Baines Johnson won a Silver Star, personally given by MacArthur, for “gallantry” as an observer in
... See moreDaniel Immerwahr • How to Hide an Empire
John Roberts • "I Wish You Bad Luck"
LYNDON JOHNSON had seen combat, had been in combat, under fire, if only as an observer. The next day, he headed home, at five-thirty a.m., boarding the B-17 that would carry the two Generals and other highranking officers as well as himself and his surviving fellow observer, Sam Anderson, back to Australia—first to Darwin, and then on the long flig
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
He must reach some type of decision.
Chet Richards • Certain to Win
Whatever people say about the General today, I can only testify that he was a sincere man who believed in everything he said, even if it was a lie, which makes him not so different from most.
Viet Thanh Nguyen • The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
being a leader requires continual learning.
James A. Belasco • Flight of the Buffalo: Soaring to Excellence, Learning to Let Employees Lead
Only the thing for which you have struggled will last. Nigerian proverb
Mark Greaney • Sentinel
THE MILITARY HAS A saying: “Train for certainty, educate for uncertainty.”