Word: pattonism
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...believe "Getting to YES" points us in the right direction, but the more important question may be whether we will have time to follow its lead. Bruce M. Patton '77 Associate Director Editor, "Getting...
...then the British mandate of Palestine, Sharon has been a hard-line Zionist all his life. At 14, he signed on with GADNA, then an underground paramilitary youth organization defending Jewish settlements. During a military career that spanned nearly three decades he earned a reputation both as a swashbuckling, Patton-like commander who sometimes overstepped his orders and as a brilliant tactician. In 1953 he created an international incident by leading an Israeli raid into Jordan that left 69 Jordanian civilians dead. Miffed because he had been passed over for the post of chief of staff, he resigned from...
...Staff George Marshall, who in 1942 jumped Ike over 366 more senior officers to make him Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe. He was the ideal choice to lead contentious allies: few others could have withstood the oversized egos of a Churchill, a De Gaulle or a Patton. Ike merely smiled and confided his frustrations to paper. His strongest language was reserved for the head of the U.S. Navy, Admiral Ernest King. "One thing that might help win this war is to get someone to shoot King," he wrote. "He's the antithesis of cooperation, a deliberately rude...
...months before the Normandy invasion, Patton remarked that "Ike wants to be President so badly you can taste it." If so, he did not tell his diary, in which he expressed the same indifference to political office that he professed in public. The only thing that could sway him, he said, was a call to duty. Yet Patton appears to have been right: he either knew Ike better than Ike knew himself, or Eisenhower, always careful, was not confiding his true emotions to pages that in some cases were dictated to his secretary. In either case, the seeming lack...
...signatures are part of the self-characterization. Formidable, hatchet-wielding Carry Nation styled herself "Home Defender." The last survivor of the outlaw Dalton gang scrawled "The Compliments of Emmett Dalton," covering all occasions. General George Patton in pearl-handled regalia penned a cloying confection about his boyhood church...