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    Earle Gilmore Wheeler (January 13, 1908 – December 18, 1975), nicknamed Bus, was a United States Army general who served as the chief of Staff of the...
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    first medal, on the day the Executive Order was signed, to General Earle Wheeler, who was retiring from the US Army after serving as Chief of Staff of...
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    Civil War-themed movie Andersonville and real-life U.S. Army General Earle Wheeler in 2002's Path to War, the final film of director John Frankenheimer...
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  • 2010 for "Blue Ridge Mountain Memories," the group includes Earle Wheeler, Mark Wheeler, Darrin Chambers, Mark Autry and Davey Waller. The Marksmen Quartet...
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    Army Robert McNamara John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson 6 Wheeler, EarleGeneral Earle Wheeler (1908–1975) 3 July 1964 2 July 1970 5 years, 364 days U.S...
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  • of George Shaw Wheeler Donald J. Wheeler, American statistician and author Earle Wheeler (1908–1975), American general Edwin Wheeler (1828–1864), American...
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    Throughout the war, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Earle Wheeler, pressed very strongly for the reserves and national guards to be called...
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  • serving under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford from 1969 to 1977 Earle Wheeler was a United States Army General who served as Chairman of the Joint...
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  • poverty, and education. In a cabinet meeting, he is pressured by General Earle Wheeler (Frederic Forrest) into sending combat troops into South Vietnam as...
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    having been succeeded as Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff by General Earle Wheeler, and became Ambassador to South Vietnam from 1964 to 1965, succeeding...
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    The Great Society as Richard J. Daley, Dr. James Z. Appel, General Earle Wheeler – Broadway (2019) Girl from the North Country as Mr. Burke – Broadway...
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  • General Wheeler may refer to: Daniel D. Wheeler (1841–1916), U.S. Army brigadier general Earle Wheeler (1908–1975), U.S. Army four-star general Edwin B...
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    1 year, 365 days U.S. Air Force Retired, 1960. 8 Lieutenant General Earle Wheeler 1 April 1960 24 February 1962 1 year, 329 days U.S. Army Promoted to...
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    1, 1962 September 3, 1964 (retired) 2 years, 155 days George Decker Earle Wheeler Harold K. Johnson 10 Abrams, Creighton Williams Jr.General Creighton...
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    President Johnson in conversation with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Earle Wheeler (center) and General Creighton Abrams (right)....
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    Ridgway James Stewart Maxwell Taylor Paul F. Warburg William Westmoreland Earle Wheeler Tommy Yeo-Thomas Draža Mihajlović Malcolm Muggeridge Joseph Wolhandler...
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    General Earle Wheeler, to force Johnson to rule out the diplomatic solution and to continue with the military solution. On 23 February 1968 Wheeler told...
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    North Korean assets abroad Use of strategic nuclear weapons General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented to the NSC a plan...
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    target selection process. Even the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Earle Wheeler, was not present for most of the critical discussions of 1965 and participated...
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    February 1968, Byrd questioned Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Earle Wheeler during the latter's testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee...
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    Staff for a few months in 1967 during the convalescence of General Earle Wheeler. Johnson retired from active duty in July 1968. For three years, General...
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    Rogers, Kissinger and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Earle Wheeler, Nixon announced that he had decided to start bombing Cambodia while...
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    Peachtree Pickers (Mark Wheeler, Lewis Phillips, Steve "Rabbit" Easter, Travis Lewis, Bill Everett, Eugene Akers, Earle Wheeler) Tracks include: Uncloudy...
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  • figures, the Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Major General Earle Wheeler, made the assumption that 'if the general war requirement could be met...
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    General Westmoreland, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler advised that the U.S. government "is not prepared to accept a defeat...
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    Vietnam, and then, turning to General Earle Wheeler who was sitting opposite him, said "Oh, excuse me, Wheeler" without any embarrassment. The National...
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    broken as both Taylor and Lemnitzer served in the Army. When General Earle Wheeler was appointed as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman by President Lyndon...
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    killed.: 45  27 April Westmoreland and Chairman of the JCS General Earle Wheeler met with Johnson to urge him to provide extra troops for the war and...
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    Secretary Melvin Laird, the Secretary of State William Rogers and General Earle Wheeler, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, who all warned that to bomb...
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  • Secretary Tom Johnson, and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler. On 23 December, it was reported that President-elect Nixon had been...
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