As the Twig is Bent
or, Did I See The Best of America
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This one life out of “The Greatest Generation” is incredibly varied and conflict-filled. A depression years’ boyhood was the foundation for a scholarship to Harvard. An exchange scholarship to China was frustrated by the War, but produced an eye-opening tour of Japan in 1937. In uniform before Pearl Harbor; to England in March 1944; Utah Beach 29 June; with Patton’s Army at Bastogne, the Battle of the Bulge, and across the Rhine to the Czech border. Front line combat as an artillery observer, a corps intelligence officer, then Chief of Counter-Intelligence for Ninth Army on the way to China when the bomb hit Hiroshima.
After Harvard Law School and five years of private practice in Houston, as Eisenhower’s 35 year old U.S. Attorney in Texas his courtroom battles involved high drama, stakes and persons. As Assistant Attorney General he headed all Federal forces in the “Second Battle of Little Rock” in 1958, and in 1959-60 controlled Federal prosecutions all over America as head of the Criminal Division.
This is a story alive with experiences involving the average American, the great and near-great, the godly and most ungodly.
About the Author
George Cain, writing in the ABA journal Experience, put it “in capsule form,” “Malcolm Wilkey is a lawyer who has had not only a second career but innumerable ones, ...major law firm partner in Houston: U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas: Assistant Attorney General of the United States in the Office of Legal Counsel and ...Criminal Division; U.S. Delegate to the United Nations Conference on Human Rights in Buenos Aires; General Counsel of Kennecott Copper Corporation in New York; Judge of the Untied States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; professor at universities in the U.S. and Great Britain; United States Ambassador to Uruguay; chair of the Presidential Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform: member of the Bryan-Suarez arbitration commission: special counsel on congressional investigations; and, since retirement, private commercial arbitrator.”