Sgt. Mickey and General Ike
About this ebook
“Mickey had a choice job in the war, but it wasn’t easy, by any means. He was on call practically twenty-four hours a day and whenever he sought to get out of earshot of the General to go to a GI movie, or perhaps to steal an hour or two with Pearlie, he had to obtain the personal approval of the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces, whose reputation for fairness and generosity I can testify began at home. The old adage that no man is a hero to his valet is disproved by Mickey’s story. Few men ever had a more loyal and cheerful orderly, and in many ways, companion and confidant.
“Former Naval Lieutenant Richard Lockridge has caught the spirit of Mickey’s story with uncanny perception. When I read some of the manuscript I could hear Mickey talking.
“In years, probably decades and perhaps centuries to come students of history will find stories like this of value in judging the character of General Eisenhower. If Caesar’s orderly, as well as others close to great world figures during stirring times, had written a book like this while memory was fresh with details, how much better all of us would have known the characters who made and are making history.”—Introduction by HARRY C. BUTCHER, Naval Aide to General Eisenhower, 1942-1945
About the author
Michael James McKeogh (1916-1993) was an Army veteran of World War II, serving as an orderly and valet to Dwight D. Eisenhower in the U.S.A., North Africa, and then in Britain and France when the general and future president was supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces.
Mr. McKeogh was mentioned frequently in Eisenhower’s wartime memoirs, “Crusade in Europe.” Following the war, he moved to the Washington area in 1956 and joined the VOA. He retired in 1978 as its special events director. McKeogh died in 1993 after a stroke.
Richard Orson Lockridge (1898-1982) was an American writer of detective fiction. Richard Lockridge with his wife Frances created one of the most famous American mystery series, Mr. and Mrs. North.
In 1960, Richard and Frances Lockridge were co-presidents of the Mystery Writers of America. They received a special Edgar Award in 1962. Richard Lockridge had received an Edgar in 1945 for best radio play.
Following his wife’s death in 1963, Richard Lockridge continued to write series mystery novels. Lockridge died in 1982 after a series of strokes.
