A more immediate legacy of his command was his creation, in conjunction with the U.S. Navy, of an effective air-sea rescue system that saved half of all B-29 crews downed at sea in 1945.
Yet Mr. Aznar's government oversaw a remarkable economic success story for a country that a decade ago was still having a hard time shaking the legacy of the command-and-control Franco years.
(A legacy of the command-control attitude is the militaristic vocabulary that's still common: "target audience," "campaign," "conquering the market" etc).
All of them are a celebration of the lessons and legacy that Jesus commanded us in and left us with, to love one another.
The congress is also expected to approve a new five-year plan, a legacy of the communist command economy.
Having purged much of their balance sheets of nonperforming loans, the legacies of Egypt's command economics of a half-century ago, Egyptian lenders have much about which to boast.
Mitsuko Uchida continues her exploration of the Germanic musical legacy, and Maurizio Pollini brings regal command to works by Chopin and Debussy.
He went on to summarize vividly his hard-war philosophy and to add, in effect, that he really did not want the help of liberated slaves in subduing the South: Sherman's record as a tactician was mixed, and his military legacy rests primarily on his command of logistics and on his brilliance as a strategist.
Despised and mocked around the world, and here at home, his history-making disapproval rating has impacted his legacy because his lack of command over the media leads to the tidal wave of speculation and pontification by talking heads and political "experts" who have been allowed to define his presidency to mean pretty much whatever they think it means.
But the numbers have worsened ever since, and Mr. Bush's aides have said, when speaking on condition that their names not be used, that Mr. Clinton was simply trying to preserve his legacy as the president who commanded one of the most spectacular rises in American economic history.
