Then Marshall leaned forward — Eisenhower recalled years later that he had “an eye that seemed to me awfully cold” — and declared, “Eisenhower, the D… - Stephen E. Ambrose

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Then Marshall leaned forward — Eisenhower recalled years later that he had “an eye that seemed to me awfully cold” — and declared, “Eisenhower, the Department is filled with able men who analyze their problems well but feel compelled always to bring them to me for final solution. I must have assistants who will solve their own problems and tell me later what they have done.

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Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian, academic, and author, most noted for his books on World War II and his biographies of U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American popular history. In 2002, several instances of plagiarism were discovered in his books. In 2010, after his death, Ambrose was found to have fabricated interviews and events in his biographies of Eisenhower.

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