President Truman once called this man “Mr. Prima Donna.”
- Allen Dulles
- Charles De Gaulle
- Douglas MacArthur
- George Patton
Douglas MacArthur. Truman also wondered in his diary “I don’t see how a country can produce such men as Lee, Pershing, Eisenhower, and Bradley and at the same time produce Custers, Pattons, and MacArthurs.”
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