Basic Information
Name: George McKee Elsey
Nickname: Georgie Porgie Puddin' N' Pie
Born: February 15, 1918
Died: December 30, 2015
Nationality: American
Hometown: Palo Alto, California
WORK & EDUCATION
Occupation: Duty Officer in the White House Map Room, Assistant to Undersecretary Clark Clifford, Military Advisor and Assistant to President Harry Truman; Later years – President of the American Red Cross
Education: Princeton, Harvard
FAMILY & FRIENDS
Spouse: Sally Phelps Bradley
Children: Howard Elsey, Anne Elsey Kranz
Friends: Harry Truman, Clark Clifford
Foes: Joseph Stalin / Communism
Analysis
In case you were wondering, George Elsey is the second half of that Clifford-Elsey Report we've mentioned a few times throughout this guide.
Elsey, along with Acheson and Clark Clifford, was an important Truman advisor. He was also a historian working on his Ph.D. at Harvard when he was assigned to the White House as an aid to FDR. After Roosevelt died, however, Elsey became an assistant under Clark Clifford, where he got to do some pretty cool things…like help write the TD and other pieces of foreign policy legislation.
Side note: thanks to Elsey's history background, he knew how to recognize major historical events in the making and go about preserving records of them. As a result, we history buffs now have access to insider stories about the allied invasion of Normandy as well as the drafting of everyone's favorite foreign policy doctrine of 1947. Thanks, George.
Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff: loyal, dedicated, not necessarily a strong leader, but an important confidante