Subordinates Quotes
A variation of this concept is fundamental to the English and American military view of the concept of command.
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.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
That is one view—the one tried the most frequently by Presidents who by their own estimates didn’t get a responsive civil service working to his priorities. Presidents like Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson had great cooperation from their civil servants; they instead appointed very competent people with strong senses of fairness and leading personnel. Ronald Regan tried both techniques. He used Wilson’s technique in his Education and Justice Department where there was slow-rolling and dissonance when his appointees tended to be ideologues with little or no outstanding professional competence in the fields they supervised. However, his military and State Department bureaucracies was very responsive to his appointees who were excellent leaders.
MacArthur was astounded that the country turned to Eisenhower rather than him. He actually did not think much of Eisenhower. Eisenhower, was very critical of MacArthur. See
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Describing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: Earl of Stockton
McPherson was the first woman who preached over the radio. With the advent of radio for all purposes, stations were being erected all over the country and began to interfere with each others broadcast. Herbert Hoover saw this as a Federal Problem and authorized his administration to regulate the power and wavelength frequencies that stations could use for their broadcasts. McPherson had built the Angelus Temple in Echo Park with two huge radio towers but she was broadcasting “the word of God” and did not want to be restricted to broadcasting on a single frequency. She and others, even today, see any regulation of a religious activity as an impingement of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
