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The George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia, US, was commissioned by President Harry S. Truman in order to preserve the papers of General George C. Marshall, who served as Army chief of staff, secretary of state and defense, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for the Marshall Plan.
A statue of General Marshall is unveiled at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies on 30 April 1998. For a more comprehensive list, see List of memorials to George C. Marshall . Two non-profit organizations, the George C. Marshall Foundation and the George C. Marshall International Center, actively propagate General ...
George C. Marshall Foundation Award, presented to an individual by the George C. Marshall Foundation who has made a significant contribution to foster international economic development and to establish, in Marshall's words, “economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace.” [32]
In 1956, Pogue was hired by the George C. Marshall Foundation to write the official biography of George Marshall. From 1963 to 1987, he worked on the four volume biography, and read over 3.5 million pages of research material while completing his work on Marshall. [11]
In 1953, the George C. Marshall Foundation began constructing a research library on the campus of the Virginia Military Institute. Along with Katherine Marshall, Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight Eisenhower attended the dedication ceremony on May 23, 1964. [16] Katherine died on December 18, 1978, at the age of 96. [7]
Van Fleet's estate donated his papers to the George C. Marshall Foundation. [35] A statue honoring him was erected at the central square of the Greek city of Kastoria, which was the location of his advanced command post during the Greek Civil War. [36]
The George C. Marshall Foundation, which oversees Clay's correspondences with corporations, foundations, and committees, [33] assembled an alphabetical list that gives a very good overview of Clay's broad range of activities in those fields. Clay served all of the following institutions in some capacity as an associate, as board member, or in a ...
George C. Marshall: 1901 General of the Army, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army in World War II, Secretary of State (1947–49), Secretary of Defense (1950), and Nobel Peace Prize winner Richard Marshall: 1915 General during World War II Frank McCarthy: 1933 Brigadier general, U.S. Army Reserve. Producer of the 1970 Academy Award-winning movie Patton.