Military Leaders, Military Leadership Quotes
The Muslims conquered Spain and controlled it to one extent or another for 600 years.
He lost the vote on this issue, and the Congress created the first committee to investigate and oversee military affairs.
He was assessing him with the demagogue Huey Long and determining that MacArthur was more dangerous, This was based on his brutal suppression of the Veterans who protested and camped in Washington to get the Bonus that Congress had promised them from WWI but would not appropriate the money, MacArthur’s huge ego and ambition, and his penchant for self-promotion. FDR did not at the time know of course that MacArthur would disobey his orders and almost start WWIII later by attacking China in the Korean War. President Truman fired MacArthur. See {638721} for the way FDR tried to handle him. In 2014, historian Mark Perry, would use this quotation as the title of his biography of MacArthur.
Written when he was forced to share command with General Francois Kellerman.
After the Confederate defeat at Roanoake Island, Norfolk, VA, in January, 1862:
The Civil War produced more deaths than all other American wars put together. Lee’s skill and gentlemanly demeanor subdue the fact that his treasonous efforts caused more American soldiers to die than the entire Second World War—and yet some Americans regard him as a hero while others see him as a traitor.
During the Civil War, General Joseph Hooker castigated the President and called for a dictator to assume power:
