Staff Quotes
The only soldier ever so honored. MacArthur had a huge ego, and was a shameless self-promoter. However he was never secure enough to have a personal staff of strong independent thinkers the way Dwight Eisenhower and most other high military officers did. The men who stayed on MacArthur’s personal staff tended to be sycophants and toadies and treated him like royalty, hence the remark by General Marshall.
In stark contrast to a modern President, TR a great writer, drafted all his own important speeches and other material and used his staff to react and edit—just the opposite of most Presidents today.
Critics, pundits, and social and program evaluators, have—as Deleuze observes—a major vested interest in the outcome of the evaluations—namely their own economic and influential existence. That alone should cast suspicion on all evaluations,
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
This was an indirect criticism of Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Advisor to George W, Bush for not taking a role that Mazarr and many others believe she should have. On the other hand, President Bush selected her precisely because she shared his values and instincts. Perhaps, Bush should have selected and advisor who held a DIFFERENT view and perspective from himself. This quotation reveals the classic dilemma of political appointments of key advisors and cabinet members. Bush and Ronald Reagan tended to select advisors who agreed with them in philosophy and politics. FDR and Obama, followed the Lincoln tradition and appointed many advisors who were not intellectual clones of their own views and values.
A mahatma is a person who is high-minded, wise, and unselfish. The mahatmaship is an Indian honorary title bestowed on a few people with exceptional clients. The term is derived from Sanskrit.
