Sublime

As Murray Kempton put it, Ike would not have trusted Dulles “with a stick of dynamite to blow up a duck pond,” but found him useful for clearing minefields.

George Orwell in his novel Burmese Days, where he wrote that imperialism consisted of the policeman and the soldier holding the “native” down, while the businessman went through his pockets.3

Lyndon Johnson, Stevenson felt, had used the law against him, not the law in its majesty but the law in its littleness; Johnson had relied on its letter to defy its spirit. Stevenson had first sought justice from the people who knew the truth best, the Jim Wells Democratic Committee itself—and that committee had been willing to give him what he sou

Petermann had become the guiding spirit behind the expedition—its primary theoretician, its éminence grise.

The legacy of this quintessential man-behind-the-scenes indeed endures. As Black Jack Pershing’s chief of operations and Dwight Eisenhower’s mentor, Fox Conner left an unmistakable imprint upon his nation’s military history. Were they alive today, Pershing and Eisenhower, as well as George Marshall and George Patton—all titans of 20th-century Ameri

Sir Henry Garraway,

The Battle of the Bulge was Ike’s finest hour as a military commander.

http://www.ted.com/speakers/bryan_stevenson.