Forrest C. Pogue
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LOCATION: Washington, DC, United States
Director, Dwight D. Eisenhower Institute for Historical Research, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1974–84. Director, George C. Marshall Research Library, Lexington, Virginia, 1964–74. Author of George C. Marshall.
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George C. Marshall was a general of the army and U.S. Army chief of staff during World War II (1939–45) and later U.S. secretary of state (1947–49) and of defense (1950–51). The European Recovery Program he proposed in 1947 became known as the Marshall Plan. He received the Nobel Prize for Peace in…
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