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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (233977)	4/7/2003 12:33:27 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) of 436258

Paul Douglas was fifteen years older than John Wayne, who was 34 years old in 1941. In 1942 Paul Douglas tried to win the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate but failed to gain the support of the Cook County Democratic machine. In the primary election he carried ninety-nine out of 102 counties but lost Cook County and the primary election to Congressman Raymond S. McKeough (who was subsequently defeated by Senator Brooks, an unrepentant Republican isolationist). He insisted, "We cannot let the isolationist minority treat F.D.R. after this war as they treated Woodrow Wilson after the first World War." Douglas thereafter prevailed upon Navy Secretary Frank Knox (a former Chicago publisher) to permit him to enlist in the Marine Corps as a private. When discharged from service in 1946, Douglas was a wounded and decorated lieutenant colonel who had served heroically in the First Marine Division at Okinawa and Peleliu, where he was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. He underwent five operations on his injured left arm, but its functional use was never restored.

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