Harry Truman — "I fired him because he wouldn't obey orders. I didn't fire him because he was a …"
I fired him because he wouldn't obey orders. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son-of-a-bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.
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33rd US President who ended WWII (atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki), founded NATO and the Marshall Plan, and integrated the US military.
Closely associated with
Franklin D. Roosevelt (his predecessor) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (his successor).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Henry A. Wallace, FDR's progressive Vice President (1941-1945) — Wallace was the VP Truman replaced on the 1944 ticket; Wallace's 1948 Progressive Party campaign attacked Truman from the left for starting the Cold War — the moral road not taken at the dawn of the atomic age.
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Referring to his firing of General Douglas MacArthur.