he transformed the Public Information Office from a career-hobbling Siberia into one of the most vital and visible components of the American military presence in the Philippines. He did so by moving his office from American military headquarters to downtown Manila, where he organized regular breakfast meetings with local newspaper and magazine editors, most of whom had never even met the previous PIO. This was joined to a charm offensive in which he got to know most every journalist assigned to cover American military- or policy-related issues. In short order, coverage of the American
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