Harold L. Ickes Quotes
The General is suffering from mental saddle sores.
Johnson, a retired General was very conservative and old fashioned. The saddle sores comment harkens back to the Army in the early 1900s when horses were the primary mode of transportation.
Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (Republican), Derogatory comment about General Hugh Samuel Johnson, 1882-1942, Director, National Recovery Administration
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Describing Oliver L. North who he tried to transfer out of the White House:
Garfield was then a Congressman.
Harold LeClair Ickes was an American administrator and politician. He served as United States Secretary of the Interior for 13 years, from 1933 to 1946, the longest tenure of anyone to hold the office, and the second longest-serving Cabinet member in U.S. history after James Wilson. Ickes and Labor Secretary Frances Perkins were the only original members of the Roosevelt cabinet who remained in office for his entire presidency.