Real men do things differently than do charlatans. Take, for example, Dwight D. Eisenhower. When he was General Eisenhower (five-star) and Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in he directed the Allied invasion of France in June 1944.
As author Steve Drummond points out in his engaging book “The Watchdog – How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two” the invasion, despite modern mythology, was far from a certain success.
As a result, General Eisenhower did what real men do. He accepted the possibility of failure and made sure where the blame would lie. In one of the most famous speeches never given, he penned the following and put it in his wallet, just in case.
“Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”
Try as we might, we could never, had our imaginations been gifted for a moment with the talents of a Shakespeare, imagine the present goofball, who some call the President of the United States of America, achieving such a pinnacle of manhood.
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