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    Minor Detail
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    Minor Detail

    By Jack Sharkey

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Minor Detail - Jack Sharkey

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      Title: Minor Detail

      Author: John Michael Sharkey

      Release Date: February 23, 2009 [EBook #28156]

      Language: English

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      General Webb had a simply magnificent idea for getting ground forces into the enemy's territory despite rockets and missiles and things like that. It was a grand scheme, except for one

      MINOR DETAIL

      By JACK SHARKEY

      The Secretary of Defense, flown in by special plane from the new Capitol Building in Denver, trotted down the ramp with his right hand outstretched before him.

      At the base of the ramp his hand was touched, clutched and hidden by the right hand of General Smiley Webb in a hearty parody of a casual handshake. General Webb did everything in a big way, and that included even little things like handshakes.

      Retrieving his hand once more, James Whitlow, the Secretary of Defense, smiled nervously with his tiny mouth, and said,

      Well, here I am.

      This statement was taken down by a hovering circle of news reporters, dispatched by wireless and telephone to every town in the forty-nine states, expanded, contracted, quoted and misquoted, ignored and misconstrued, and then forgotten; all this in a matter of hours.

      The nation, hearing it, put aside its wonted trepidations, took an extra tranquilizer or two, and felt secure once more. The government was in good hands.

      Leaving the reporters in a

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