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Eisenhower Confers With Taylor -- President Eisenhower Talks today with Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chosen yesterday to take Command of the Eighth Army in Korea. Taylor will succeed Gen. James A. Van Fleet, who is retiring.
Mr. Eisenhower and General Taylor when he was Chief-of-Staff of the U.S. Army.
General Maxwell D. Taylor, appointed by President Kennedy this week to he his personal military adviser, does not fit the popular image of the professional soldier as an inarticulate man of narrow interests.
The 59-year-old, six-foot, four-star General is as much at home with the an cient Greek dramatists as he is with Soviet cold-war strategists. January 24, 1953. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).