Constructed in the 1843 and with an addition in 1884, it served as the home of the island's highest ranking Army officer It has served as the home of several notable generals including Jonathan Wainwright, Walter Bedell Smith, and Winfield Scott Hancock, who ran for president while living here.
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US diplomat Robert Daniel Murphy claims Eisenhower found the surrender ceremony distasteful and had decided not to participate, delegating the signing to his Chief of Staff General Walter Bedell Smith and that EAC-approved surrender documents were not signed on 7 May because an exhausted General Smith had thought that EAC had never approved a surrender agreement.
Concentrating on decisions actually made by Eisenhower and the pressures brought to bear on him personally, it includes his personal relationship with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Ian Mune) and his own Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, US Army (Timothy Bottoms).