George Marshall

George Catlett Marshall, America's most famous soldier-statesman since George Washington, whose unselfish leadership and moral integrity affected the outcome of two world wars and helped define the American century. Winston Churchill dubbed him the organizer of victory in World War II. Few lives are more deserving of re-examination now, in our period of failed leadership than Marshall's fifty years of dedicated devotion to the defense of his country and its beliefs. He was hailed as a genius even as a young lieutenant, a reputation he cemented when, during WWI, he planned and executed a midnight transfer of more than half a million troops from one battlefield to another, resulting in the armistice.