Deployed to Korea at the start of the Korean War, the corps was one of three corps that remained in the country for the entire conflict, commanding US, British, and South Korean forces through three years of back-and-forth campaigns against North Korean and Chinese forces.
"He stops us from doing a bunch of things that are typical back and forth campaign stuff that isn't in the president's voice," said Jim Messina, Mr. Obama's campaign manager.
In truth, Francona, who is not interested in the harsh back-and-forth of campaign politics, is expected to replace Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson; the appointment will be announced in a Presidential press conference at the White House later today.
Do the inhabitants of this village not understand that issuing a 'special exception' to one group invites other groups, whoever and whatever they may be, to follow suit?" Ms. White's open letter was part of a back-and-forth ad campaign in The Southampton Press between those defending property rights and those defending religious rights.
That has set off a furious back-and-forth between the campaigns, with the McCain campaign countering that Mr. Obama's plan also would undermine employer coverage by mandating that medium and large companies either provide insurance for their workers or pay a tax.
In a news conference and later on his campaign bus, Mr. McCain returned repeatedly to what he described as the negative nature of the Bush campaign, and asserted that he would risk getting pulled into a back-and-forth argument about campaign tactics.
This time, he has yet to broadcast a single spot and instructed his advisers to avoid becoming consumed by the daily back-and-forth of a campaign.
That could provide an object lesson for news organizations hoping to create a permanent record of the back-and-forth of a campaign.
On Tuesday, before Mr. Bush's decision became known, the drilling issue was already causing a heated back-and-forth on the campaign trail.
The biggest fear for Mr. Obama's team is that a large number of voters suddenly will get so fed up with the back-and-forth of the campaign, the economic outlook and the partisan rancor that they break for Mr. Romney, if only to try something new in Washington.
Even before the disclosure of Mr. Bush's decision, the drilling issue caused a heated back-and-forth on the campaign trail on Tuesday, as Mr. McCain sought to straddle the divide between environmentalists and the energy industry, while facing accusations from his Democratic opponent, Senator Barack Obama, that he had flip-flopped and capitulated to the oil industry.
