United States Coast Guard Academy
Alumni: London Steverson, G. William Miller, Thad Allen, James Loy,
Bruce E. Melnick, Harvey E. Johnson, JR.
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ISBN13: 9781155406800
ISBN10: 115540680x
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All publicity is good. There is no such thing
as bad publicity. It is better to be attacked and slandered than to be
ignored. You must not discriminate between the different types of
attention. In the end, all attention will work to your favor.
Welcome personal attacks and feel no need to defend yourself. Court
controversy, even scandal. Never be afraid or ashamed of the qualities
that set you apart or draw attention to you. Everything is judged by
its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself
get lost in a crowd, or buried in oblivion. Stand out; be conspicuous
at all costs. Make yourself a magnet for attention by appearing larger,
more colorful, more mysterious, than the bland and the timid masses.
Burning more brightly than those around you is a skill that no one is
born with. You have to learn to attract attention. At the start of your
career, you have to attach your name and your reputation to a quality or
an image that sets you apart from other people. This image can be
something characteristic like a style of dress, or a personality quirk
that amuses people and gets you talked about. Once the image is
established, you have an appearance, a place in the sky for your star.
Attack the sensational, the false, the scandalous, and the politically
correct. Keep reinventing yourself. Once you are in the limelight you
have to renew it by reinventing ways to court attention.
People feel
superior to people whose actions they can predict or control. If you
show them who is in control by playing against their expectations, you
will gain their respect and tighten your hold on their fleeting
attention. Society craves people who stand apart from general
mediocrity.
Synopses & Reviews
Chapters:
London
Steverson, G. William Miller, Thad Allen, James Loy, Bruce E. Melnick,
Harvey E. Johnson, Jr., Erroll M. Brown, James C. Van Sice, Chester R.
Bender, Peter Boynton, J. William Kime, Charles D. Wurster, Owen W.
Siler, Daniel C. Burbank, Thomas H. Collins, Paul A. Yost, Jr., John B.
Hayes, Willard J. Smith, Timothy S. Sullivan, William D. Baumgartner,
Thomas T. Matteson, Terry M. Cross, Steven H. Ratti, Edwin J. Roland,
Robert E. Kramek, Billy Tauzin III, James S. Gracey, George Naccara. Free updates online.
Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club
where you can select from more than a million books without charge.
Excerpt:
London Eugene Livingston Steverson (born March 13, 1947) was
one of the first two African Americans to graduate from the United
States Coast Guard Academy in 1968.
Later, as chief of the newly formed
Minority Recruiting Section of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), he
was charged with desegregating the Coast Guard Academy by recruiting
minority candidates.
He retired from the Coast Guard in 1988.
In 1990
was appointed to the bench as a Federal Administrative Law Judge with
the Office of Hearings and Appeals, Social Security Administration.
Steverson was born and raised in Millington, Tennessee, the oldest of
three children of Jerome and Ruby Steverson.
At the age of 5 he was
enrolled in the E. A. Harrold elementary school in a segregated school
system. He later attended the all black Woodstock High School in
Memphis, Tennessee, graduating valedictorian.
A Presidential Executive
Order issued by President Truman had desegregated the armed forces in
1948, but the service academies were lagging in officer recruiting.
President Kennedy specifically challenged the United States Coast Guard
Academy to tender appointments to Black high school students. London
Steverson was one of the Black students to be offered such an appointment.
Synopsis:
Purchase includes free
access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the
publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million
books without charge.
Chapters:
London Steverson, G. William Miller,
Thad Allen, James Loy, Bruce E. Melnick, Harvey E. Johnson, Jr., Erroll
M. Brown, James C. Van Sice, Chester R. Bender, Peter Boynton, J.
William Kime, Charles D. Wurster, Owen W. Siler, Daniel C. Burbank,
Thomas H. Collins, Paul A. Yost, Jr., John B. Hayes, Willard J. Smith,
Timothy S. Sullivan, William D. Baumgartner, Thomas T. Matteson, Terry
M. Cross, Steven H. Ratti, Edwin J. Roland, Robert E. Kramek, Billy
Tauzin III, James S. Gracey, George Naccara.
Excerpt:
Wilbert Joseph
Billy Tauzin III was born December 1, 1973 in Thibodaux, Louisiana, the
son of Congressman Billy Tauzin and Gayle Clement Tauzin. After
graduating from Bishop O'Connell High School in Arlington, VA, as a
National Honor Society Student and 3 sport lettermen (football,
wrestling and lacrosse), Tauzin accepted an appointment to the United
States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. After quitting
the Coast Guard Academy his junior year, Tauzin finished his bachelor's
degree in marketing at Louisiana State University in 1996. That summer
he applied for and accepted an entry-level position selling wireless
phones for Bell Atlantic Wireless in suburban Virginia. Three promotions
later, he moved to outside sales in Rockville, Maryland. When the
desire to return to his home state overwhelmed him, he applied for and
accepted a job in Metairie, Louisiana as a Corporate and External
Affairs Manager for BellSouth. In a decision that provoked internal
dissension in the Louisiana Republican Party, the 30-year-old Tauzin was
endorsed by the Republican Party executive committee as its candidate
to fill the open seat caused by his father's 2004 retirement from the
United States House of Representatives due to his battle with pancreatic
cancer. Tauzin bested a crowded ...
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