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William Safire: ...I could never get him to write his memoirs before he died; the active octogenarian stubbornly said "I won't live my life with eyes on the rear-view mirror." But Chuck Kelly...interviewed him skillfully and often, and now we have an adventurer's eye-view of McCrary's little-known role in tempestuous times.

About the Author

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A Yale Law School graduate and Air Force officer, Charles Kelly served as Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce in the Eisenhower administration. He is the author of The Sky's the Limit, The History of the Airlines, Coward McCann, 1963. In 1994, he and Tex McCrary initiated Citizens for Colin Powell, a presidential draft, modeled on Citizens for Eisenhower. He and his wife, Maggie, live in Vero Beach, Florida