Insights into Thomas J. Watson Sr., Traditional Founder of IBM from
"THINK Again!: 20th Century Ideas and High Ideals for the 21st Century"
"THINK Again!: 20th Century Ideas and High Ideals for the 21st Century"
- A Few More Insights Beyond the Prologue into Tom Watson's Character
As summarized by one person: “The world is better for his having lived.”
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- Documenting Tom Watson’s Wartime Humanitarian Causes
This list chronicles for posterity Tom Watson’s foremost World War II and Korean War humanitarian activities.
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- Tom Watson: A “Man of Peace” Became “Democracy’s Man O’ War”
For outstanding service to the nation during the war, Thomas J. Watson, IBM President, was awarded the Medal for Merit, conferred by U.S. President Harry S. Truman and presented by Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson in Washington, D. C., on May 19, 1947.
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- The International Community Recognized Tom Watson as an Exemplary Man
This is a partial list of expressions of warm appreciation from the international community that few other 20th Century figures have matched.
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- Tom Watson’s High Ideals on Youth, Education, and the Future
This article contains a few excerpts from those speeches like this one: “We have no right to feel that we are doing a good educational job until we can offer an opportunity to every child regardless of his station in life.”
Tom Watson, Rollins College, February 1937
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