Re: History questions

[Tom Hickcox <tomh@winconx.com>]

I guess he wasn't as much controversial as you sure knew he was
around.

Wasn't Nimitz from the hill country of Texas near where LBJ was
from?

Thanks for your answer.

Tommy
At 18:09 2/4/01, you wrote:
> In a message dated
> 02/04/2001 2:05:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> tomh@winconx.com writes: 
>
>
> > How was he controversial? 
> >
> > Tommy 
>
>
> Hi Tommy- 
>
>  Oh boy, it's been a long time ago and I didn't mean to imply
> anything 
> derogatory. General Dean was not the shy retiring type and he had no
> trouble 
> voicing his opinions  on various subjects which  sometimes
> conflicted with 
> the opinions of others. He seemed to relish this and from time to time he
> would make the news. He was very distinctive with his "GI"
> haircut and his 
> enthusiasm but he was in every way a gentleman. And everyone was
> interested 
> in his opinions. 
>   I met both Dean and Nimitz, another Berkeley favorite son and I
> would 
> characterize them as two separate type individuals. Both were people you
> would like to know. 
>   I seems to me that Dean eventually retired to Rossmoor, a
> retirement 
> community in Walnut Creek and gradually blended into old age obscurity.
>   It was not my intention to create any kind of controversy. 
>
> Ronald D Schultz 
> Moraga, CA