“Marshall had this little black notebook that he kept with him all the time, and he slid it across the desk so the reporter could see it. He said that the book contained the names of certain younger officers, and that he was spending huge amounts of time studying these men closely. He told the reporter that he was constantly assigning them to projects and tasks that were almost impossible to complete and watching how they handled themselves. And he said something like this to the reporter: ‘The ones who meet the challenges of those assignments will be pushed ahead . . . and those who fail will
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