Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.
Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. Vol. 2, Charles L. Webster & Company, 1886, p. 117.
Ironically, Lieberman was using this quotation to campaign against Bush’s son, George W. Bush.
See a similar sentiment by Tallyrand
The President told McNamara that if the administration does not send the troops the Generals want, they will be blamed for any military failures that occur. If they do send all the troops that the Joint Chiefs wanted, they would be going far beyond the limits that the Defense Secretary recommended and the President would have preferred. JBJ felt he really had no political choice. He authorized the wanted troops further escalating the war. See his special assistant’s question about that decision in {617151}.
Written when he was forced to share command with General Francois Kellerman.
Ulysses S. Grant was an American military leader who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who created the Justice Department and worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans. As Commanding General, he led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865 and thereafter briefly served as Secretary of War.
