History has shown very clearly that for democracy to contin… - T. R. Fehrenbach

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History has shown very clearly that for democracy to continue, the people, and not the generals or even the executive authority, must have control over the military.

T. R. Fehrenbach

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Theodore Reed "T. R." Fehrenbach, Jr. (January 12, 1925 – December 1, 2013) was an American historian, columnist, and the former head of the Texas Historical Commission. He graduated from Princeton University in 1947 and wrote more than twenty books, including the bestsellers Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans and This Kind of War, about the Korean War.

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Birth Name: Theodore Reed Fehrenbach, Jr.

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