Probably the best line Selleck ever delivered...because it was perfect.

He wasn't wrong about the communism war lmfao.

@@chandlerwalrath9347 ??? Warsaw Pact was super authoritarian and busted worker unions and socialist cooperative groups

Looking back on it, I think George was right about what was gonna happen in the future (our present). Maybe that's why they killed him.

@@samiam1254 Who is "they" ?

Indeed well said!

@@MaloPiloto thank you.

Kingkiller?

Whenever IKE needed a miracle he would usually turn to general Patton for it and more often than not get it.

you need a woman for the job!

We would have been just fine without Patton. Not so with Ike, and especially Marshall...

Ike was not top of his class in military school, was not the first in line for being the supreme commander but FDR knew he would be a stern Marshall. He could demand discipline, earn respect from politicians in every allied and occupied country and was very savvy diplomatically and administratively, and could handle the immense job he had in organizing the whole western offensive. Patton was a fine field commander and tactician and brave as hell, a real soldier. But Ike was indispensable.

​@@cronistamundano8189 Patton was a tool. Ike and Marshall decided how the tool would be used.

A war that never deployed directly.

@@melquizedec well vietnam, korea, Afghanistan, cuba. tiny based wars fighting communism. Not usa v ussr in a nuclear war.

Even Japan fears the soviet union especially after the second that's why surrendered communist are atheists they would have destroyed anything to do with religion in Japan including the emperor Patton was right pluss eisenhower was looking into politics

The ENEMY OF MY ENEMY.

@@michaelhunting2868 Eisenhower was right. A racial war against the USSR across a starving Europe would have caused communism to spread like wildfire.

"Shut UP" LOL

Better delivered when Karl Malden (who playedGeneral Bradley) said that to George C. Scott when he played Patton.

It just feels so genuine especially the 'Shut up!' 😂

@Sabrina Dugan crony capitalism...now, get me a sammich

Ike said GD a lot lol. Even as President

No doubt. I think this was his breakout role, in which he showed that he was more than a sex symbol, but quite a fine actor.

Possibly but I do like him in Paradise

One of his best, that's for sure.

Never got enough heavy dramatic roles before he became famous for Magnum PI which has shaddowed him ever since - great show but would understand if he resented it as wll a bit hence the Jessie Stone movies he does occasionally. If he was emerging today he would have been a great choice for Jack Reacher?

Everyone is going to have their own opinion on which movie was his best. It's hard to argue with those who would say, _Monty Walsh_ is at the top of their list. 😀

Ike didn't trust the Russians, either. However, the one thing the US and its allies could afford was having the Soviet Union sign a separate peace treaty with the Germans, similar to what they did in WWI, which would have allowed the Germans to move troops from the Eastern Front westward to bulk up their defenses. That's why he was sensitive, maybe oversensitive, to any comments like ones Patton often made.

@@gregford2103 i think it was the other way around with Joe worried the germans would sue for peace with the americans and brits and the western allies being too naive to see beyond their noses when it came to comunism and the violence it would continue to ignite worldwide. Anyway history is history and if it wasnt for the events of the of pre and postwar i wouldnt have been born, i will continue to live a decent life for those who saw theirs cut short.

@@captain0080 There was incredible distrust on both sides. The simple fact is the British, US, Russian alliance was a fragile one, but it held together long enough to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The world is a better place because the Allies prevailed.

Oh right! Joe Stalin could have run his army all the way to Gibraltar if he would have wanted to, and kicked off ANY American British or French army. The fact he didn't says a lot that people like you apparently can't hear. The reason for the Cold war was simply American nuclear development, and their running nuclear bombsbring up to Soviet borders with bombers and later with missiles and submarines. And when America reneged on every single deal they made with the Russians for post-war development and such,the American financial class effectively made enemies of the Russians into the foreseeable future. This was to as they said contain communism, and also to provide unending trillions of dollars into the development of these idiotic weapons. The Soviet Union is gone now but Russia is still an enemy, and China stands out now to the Pentagon for reduction. Like Patton these people will never be out of wars because they don't yet possess everything. And to say that they are psychotic is very valid imo

He wasn't really wrong to.

Clerk

Ike is a great case-in-point of how it’s not the best guy that should take the lead, but the right one. Ike could manage effectively all the megalomaniacs among his colleagues

Finest damm clerk general MacArthur ever had lol

@@tinafoster8665 MacArthur was a self serving, egomaniacal, borderline insane prick.

@@tinafoster8665 Funny for a guy who lost Philippines and Korea to make fun of IKE.

Don't have to be sorry about anything, any actor would love to play him regardless of your feelings

Scott played Patton the way Patton himself would have wanted himself to be portrayed. But mark my words, there’s going to be some smart kid who will re-dub Patton’s dialogue with a computerized re-creation of his actual voice and it’s going to shock everyone. For what its worth, McRaney is oddly closer in voice to the real Patton.

The movie wasn’t about Patton. But yes he did.

What's really funny is how different Patton sounded than George C. Scott. You expect to hear Scott's loud, gravely voice and instead you hear a high pitched, soft voice from Old Blood & Guts himself.

This version is more accurate to the actual Patton tho

Ike was also a underrated and underappreciated President, America's economic golden age was under his leadership.

What’s the name of the movie? Thanks.

@@wanderingnomad1 Ike: Countdown to D-Day.

The Allies had captured most of the German Weather Stations & trawler ships that could have sent back the information

Ike should have seen what Stalin was doing

Live in War....then tell Me that

@@nicoangel690 you tell a dude who just saw his buddy as a turret gunner getting mangled in half after their vehicle getting flipped over by an ied to get over it

@@nicoangel690 combat vet here. you NEVER hit a shell shelked soilder. NEVER that is your bother, whos mind has been torn apart by the enemy. if you think hitting him is going to help him put himself back toghter, your to stupid to even look at a gun

@@nicoangel690 I think you need a slap

@@nicoangel690 EVERYONE has a breaking point. Some faster then other's. Some it comes out in other ways. It all depends on the person. I would try not to judge them. Because You never know where yours just might be. One of the toughest men I met was in Special Forces. Green Berets he never showed any sign of thing's bothering him. One day he saw a little kid he would talk to and play soccer with and give candy to get shot and die. He cried like a baby and had to be sent out because he was in such a state of grief. He couldn't function.

Holy shit. I didn't even recognize him without hair and the mustache.

Major Dad got a promotion.

It took me a moment to realize who that was. Remove Tom's mustache and Hawaiian shirt and it's hard to recognize the guy.

Was Eisenhower that naive about "Joe Stalin"?

@John Cornell True. The Real Patton was massively anti-semitic, was racist, misogynistic and incredibly arrogant. And as for his general skills? I think they are overrated. He never had to lead with anything but a huge advantage and almost total air superiority in almost every battle he fought in. Any idiot can win a battle when he is holding all the cards.

Super correct

Yeah, that politically correct crap is working out nicely.

I was going to say some crap, but you said some better crap. Well said.

@@op1240 HAHA. Ditto to you from me on your crap comment.

Then he was assassinated.

You must be very proud

@Bruss390 thank you for your kind comment, I am VERY proud of Dad. I wish you the best for the year!

@@jerrymccrae7202 likewise buddy 😁

You can hear is high pitch voice on you tube.

@@ianmangham4570 Maybe artefact of recording technology of the time. All voices sound kind-of squeaky on that primitive recording equipment.

Yes indeed the real Patton's voice is rather higher pitched than normal. If one doesn't know Patton, one would never guess he's a 4 star General.

Patton *hated* to hear himself! He would've applauded George C. Scott's performance, as he had the look and the attitude _so_ down pat, but with the vocal _gravitas_ that Patton thought his own words deserved. 🧐

George C. Scott played Patton better than Patton played Patton.

Patton bailed Eisenhower out of trouble more than once. This "movie" is nothing more than Hollywood propaganda! Fabricating dialogue and putting a Leftist bias to the scene! Patton saw the New World Order coming and didn't approve of it , so they tarnished his image.

That was a very helpful post!

You forgot to mention that they were finally ordered by their commander to the hospital because of shell shock. That is when Patton found them.

He was a bully

​@@adamgrimsley2900 unfortunately that probably describes the best generals. I'm sure stormin Norman wasn't a lot of fun to work with

It took me a few minutes to recognized Selleck as Ike.

"I know what you're thinking..."

The voice is unmistakable.

It is. Its the 1st time playing a person out of history

That's how I recognized him too. I doubt that I'd have recognized Ike as TS visually. It was definitely the voice that gave it away.

Sadly, 75 years after the fact, most Americans don't even know who the two characters they are portraying were.

You're right. Seeing both without their mustaches is weird. Simon & Simon was also on CBS and Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker did a guest starring role on Magnum PI once so it wasn't the first time they'd worked together.

Kudos to Eisenhower to get Patton and Montgomery working together and showing whos boss. Otherwise, everything falls apart.

Ike wasn't a tenth of the soldier as Patton. A pencil pusher, never saw a battlefield. And his criminal negligence and revenge tactics he pulled on a defeated Germany Army, and the citizens of that country were nothing less than murder and genocide. He just sat back and let USSR take too much of Europe, while Patton was ready attack and send their asses back to Moscow. He Knew they were going to be trouble someday. And that we were fighting the wrong people.

...you mean he was more of a... yuck..politician...yes...true, he also later became President. Patton however was their best battlefield Commander not only because of his studied knowledge of warfare, and his toughness and intelligence as a tactician...but also because he was loved by his men because he was a true front line Commander who controlled fear! He led by example...and would not send others to go where he would not tread! The enemy feared his name....

Eisenhower also sucked off the british way to much, im 1000% the navy made fun of him. And screwed over patton alot specially when they fked up in halland and patton was scraping stuck in france

Montgomery had few redeeming qualities one would be hopefully expected to possess of an army commander during that time. He was more apt to a sly politician to benefit his character and purport some degree of military genius. Historical accounts that were not answerable to him (Montgomery) described him as being in near "baffoon" territory.

No its not. It's a very lame line

It's not even a helmet; it's a helmet liner, which looks like a kid's plastic toy helmet.

Ike should have fired him right then and there if he did it...which I doubt he did.

Patton class of 1909, Eisenhower like Bradley class of 1915.

rudy kipling what a random thing to be wrong about..they were not at West Point together

No he was wrong, Patton wanted to invade Russia. Thus causing another huge war and million more dead and probably further spread of communism. Instead the US started the marshal plan and won the war with communism with peace. PAX AMERICANA won. Fuck Patton dumb violent ideas. He would have led to a massacre. Sometimes you need to be SMART and TACTICAL and DIPLOMATIC. A General should KNOW that.

Yes, but at the time he was very wrong.

@@freedomordeath89 You are an idiot. URSS had it first A Bomb only at 1949. Until then US could have made several of them and dropped over major cities in URSS, and even China, and forced a unconditional surrender and the world would never had to deal with hardcore Socialism ever again.

@@pc12gauge The Russians once burned their capital city to the ground so an invading army could not have it. You honestly think dropping some atomic bombs that we didnt have would have mattered?

@@joshburns969 yes it would have lol japan had even more resolve then Russians but when another country can take a city every day there no use in fighting its why even an emporer would surrender one bomb on Moscow that would kill Stalin the rest wohld of cru.bled from there we could of finished everything back then

Do you know what the word literally means? You're an idiot. He isn't literally Eisenhower.

I didn’t even recognize him, tbh

Yikes! It IS Tom Selleck. I'd never have recognised him without the soup strainer.

That mustache has typecast him over the years, like Sam Elliott hard to imagine him without it

@Joe Francis >>> _"soup strainer"_ 😊😊😊😊😊

yes the star player who forgets he is part of a team and that one great player can't win a team sport alone.

That happened?? Wow, need to re-watch some stuff.

Patton reminds me of a line in Heartbreak Ridge were the Major says Highway should be kept behind glass that says "break in case of war". Patton was a great tactician but a crappy general if that makes sense. Ike was so good as bringing all these different top generals under one plan.

​@@mattm7798Ike had to deal with the likes of Patton , Monty and even DeGaul... He knew had to handle primadonas .

@@MarkGoding Haha right. The fact that a French general was in anyway pompous was hilariously ironic considering how quickly they fell to the Germans. The British on the other hand successfully thwarted an all out assault on the British Isles so they had something to be proud of. Also weren't the British the first to use radar en masse?

@@mattm7798 Even by the standards of French generals, DeGaul was arrogant.. my favourite line from Rise and fall of the 3rd Reich was... : "DeGaul then relocated to England, where his steady diet for the next 4 years was the hand that fed him" ....

​@@MarkGodingGreat quote!😂 That's William T Shirer right???

Well he did win two terms as president and was leader of allied troops in Europe. so not sure how much more kudos/credit he could get as a politician

@@pilgrim7globalltd227 And before the "presidential dollars" were issued, he was one of only six presidents to appear on a circulating US coin.

I've always wanted to believe that Ike would have stayed out of Vietnam

@@pilgrim7globalltd227 and also, wasn't he the only or one of the only 5 star generals ever?

@@709mash One of 5

If he wasn't a politician, why was he talking to the press about politics? It doesn't look like the difference is a big as one might think.

Matthew Fautch He was talking to the press because he was kind of an ego maniac. The reporters wanted to talk to him because he was famously “the best general” that the allies had. A bad combination for a man with no filter. Hence why Larry S said he was no politician. He couldn’t keep his thoughts concealed, didn’t know or care how to be diplomatic, and was overly opinionated.

Noplayster Couldn’t have said it better myself.

The president of the United States of America is the Commander in Chief; the highest ranking member of the USA military. Regardless of how you feel the president is the highest ranking military member.

@@JakerTheSnake Commanding the military is not the same as being *in* the military. Presidents are the chief officers of the government. They are not officers of the military. They do not take the officer's oath. They do not receive an officer's pension (unless they previously served, possibly, such as Eisenhower), and they do not have a NATO-standard rank. Commander-in-Chief is not a rank, like General; it is a job title, like Army Chief of Staff (which is by law held by a four-star general). They do not even possess the one thing *most* indicative of being a soldier -- a uniform.

Proof is in the pudding America's economic golden age was under Ike's presidency and his party warning about the military industrial complex and its threat to our Republic were some of the most honest words a president ever spoke

I'd be curious to see a reference for that. I've read the thought that Eisenhower wasn't the best politician....but I've never read anything that said Eisenhower was anything other than a good and decent human being.

@@joshuac6389 I came across that either in the book "President Kennedy- Profile of Power" by Richard Reeves or his other one titled ""President Nixon: Alone in the White House". Can't remember exactly which but believe it was the former. It had to do with Kennedy meeting with Ike during the transition I think. Both excellent reads.

@Hal09i I'll check those out, thank you!!

I remember watching it when it came out and was amazed at Selleck too. He did a great job

based on what?

@@operez6519 i think what he meant was 'based", ie 'based' in term.

@theinevitable storm82 Antisemite.

@theinevitable storm82 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA YOU THINK THE WEST WOULD HAVE WON IF THEY ATTACKED THE SOVIETS? Look as much as I'd love to believe thats true thats just fucking ridiculous, the Soviets had armies built up and had the majority of europe under it's control theres a slim fucking chance we wouldve beaten them considering Western europe was fucking obliterated.

James Leliveld the Western allies had three things the Soviets didn’t have have. One was the British and American air forces outnumbered the Soviet Air Force, they also had the two largest navies in the world, and third of all they had atom bombs which the Soviets wouldn’t have until 1949.

And that's why he became the first casualty of pre-planned Cold War

And that's why he became the first casualty of pre-planned Cold War

obviously. but Eisenhower was also right. patton needed to shut up about them and focus on winning the war

@@jessebowman161 that's why General Smedley Butler said that "war is a racket, it always has been"

Ike knew it. They all did.

Ike was a good leader but he hated war a bit too much. A bit more aggression during his presidency would have saved countless lives in the long run. In particular, he should have sent the marines in to get rid of Batista, and he should have made the Shah see sense and how shaky his hold on power was. The second was a long shot, but imagine a world without an Iranian revolution. The first though was easily within his power. Imagine a world without Castro, without the Bay of Pigs, without the Cuban Missile Crisis, and without the 50 military interventions Cuba made in the 3rd world at the USSR's behest.

actually he wasn't that gifted in war. He was an immature narcissist who fluked his way to the top. He had very little understanding of grand strategy, logistics and supply lines etc. He was put in charge of high risk, hastily organised but necessary offensive operations. The troops were wise to him "blood and guts: his blood, our guts".

Tommy Two-shoes wow the Germans sure thought he was the best fighting general the allies had so much so in fact that the simple fact he was stationed across from cala help up a number of divisions including heavy armor that likely saved Omaha beach which was in doubt many hours and would of failed if Germany had moved in heavy armor... The status of that one man and some excellent psyops by allies had Hitler believing Normandy was a diversion for half a day...

George Patton was an outstanding general and tactician. His methods are still being taught at West Point. He had a grasp of the big picture that other generals did not. He understood the grand strategy, logistics, and supply lines, but he also understood that his way was the best way and that he commanded the best army in the field at the time.

And he also had a big mouth! You have to work with people to get things done...that is why Bradley was promoted ahead of him. You need to know when to talk and when to shut up...

True. The movie paints the picture of Omar Bradley and George S. Patton as being best friends but If you read some of the historical accounts you'll discover that much of the time Bradley could hardly stand being in the same room with him!

I thought I recognized that voice but I couldn't place it.

Simon and Simon....I loved that show.

Major Dad

Gerald McRaney will always Mayor Green in "Jericho".

John Hillerman will always be "Higgy Baby"

Benji I thought the "fatigue makes cowards..." line came from Coach Vince Lombardi of the Green Bay Packers.

Fatigue is unavoidable. Wither it is physical or mental. It will eventually win in the end.

@@GreatBigRanz Right...that's the point. That's why you train hard so you delay fatigue.

This movie is anti Patton propaganda, i would be interested in the ethnicity of the producers and directors.

Marshall is the reason a 5 star is called General of the Army instead of Field Marshall like other countries. George Marshall on getting his 5th star would have been Marshall Marshall.

@@johnharris6655 Hah!

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@@cheaplaffsarefree Thank you.

@@Wigattor88 really

That could be debatable. Anglo-Saxons was predominantly associated with England and in turn, America.

@@Johnston212 Exactly. Patton was suggesting that England and America would be the leaders of the free world after World War II was over, and that the Soviet Union was probably going to be an antagonist to that.

The USA had ceased to be a majority "Anglo-Saxon" nation before Patton was even born.

It's not just what you say, it's how you say it. Ike (a future President of the United States) understood that. Patton did not.

@@fantom5894 Patton had no political ambitions. He was a pure combat soldier.

Easily the best line in the whole scene

IKE may have been the only one in history to been able to tell that to Patton to his face.

That's some irony, that fatigue would be an excuse to abuse someone with shell-shock 🤭

He may have been tired, but I don't think he had enough personal combat exposure to clinically qualify for PTSD.

That’s actually not true at all🤡, he apologized after Eisenhower reprimanded him in private and forced him to, Bradley and Eisenhower both wrote that patron didn’t believe in battle fatigue or shell shock(ptsd)and he himself wrote it was an excuse for weak men ,he was absolutely wrong and was punished for his error like he deserved

Yeah AFTER Patton threatening a kid (who was suffering from malaria and shell shock) with death for so called "cowardice". Patton was a bully and maybe he deserved to get run down like a dog in the street. Notice how he was big and bad walking in the room, but he practically begged and pleaded not to be sent home in the end. Textbook bully behavior: Badass until they're confronted or someone fights back!

​@@JorisKoolen - not an excuse, an explanation.

Except for the fact Montgomery essentially organised D-day by himself

Joey Jamison Patton was all that and a shoe in for President. Instead the murdering Ike gets in. Loads of his kind of friends in Washington!

Chloe wilson remember Ike got the GOP nomination over Doug MacArthur, a better general than either of them. Ike was level headed and controllable, which is what needed to end the Korean War.

Gen Macarthur requested 50 nuclear bombs from Harry Truman to win the Korean war

It's more prevalent in males than in females. Camille Paglia touches on this alot.

I disagree. Patton wasn't even close to insane. He was, in my opinion, egotistical to the utmost, which clouded his non-combat judgment. War is politics by other means, and Patton only understood the tactical and operational levels of war, not the strategic nor political levels.

Yeah, but Eisenhower was his superior for a reason. Ike was the kind of General utterly unintimidated by Patton's rep and able to deal with him and his screw-ups like his slapping of military hospital patients by relegating to being Decoy-In-Chief of Operation Fortitude.

Good general, terrible person.

@@herbivorethecarnivore8447 He is Great man

@@superiorshotgun4348 I think herbivore the carnivore got it right.

@@brianwalsh1401 Terrible men do not liberate Europe

Did we miss something?

Not really. The United States didn't end up fighting the Soviet Union. Yes, we fought proxy wars, and, yes, Soviet pilots flew against American pilots in Korea, but, in the end, the US and the USSR never really went to war.

The only thing Blacks will ever amount to in the Army are cooks… Gen Patton

You mean Eisenhower

Ataturk and de Gaulle are two other examples I can think of now.

Ulysses S Grant? George Washington? Napoleon Bonaparte? William the Conqueror? Julius Caesar? Augustus Caesar? etc... I guess it depend on how you define it but political leadership in the past was full of successful military leaders.

The Duke of Wellington became Prime Minister of Great Britain; and you say nothing of Andrew Jackson and/or Theodore Roosevelt.

Yes,they did. Also,however,Patton praised some anti-semitism,unfortunately. NOBODY is Perfect.

@@iggyarctic5711 i would have taken some anti-semitism over a nuclear arms race that can end the planet now we are all fucked

Men like Patton and Winston predicted Cold War because their friends would start it.

@@Kriegerdammerung best and accurate answer 👌

it wasnt hard to predict tbh

That's Ike's fault?

Do you really think millions of US soldiers would have fought and died to save them?

@@markmerzweiler909 nope

@@kbanghart not totally. FDR dismissed Stalin as the threat he was thinking they could control him. Churchill recognized the threat Stalin posed but as the Junior partner was left on the sidelines. FDR thanks to the Stalinist agents in his inner circle basically gave Stalin everything and Ike went along with it.

@@brianschwatka3655 You must remember that from 1941-1944, the Soviet Union took almost the entire brunt of Hitler's military machine. The allies felt guilty during the earlier meetings...big reason they gave Stalin so much.

Not for slapping a shell-shocked soldier

Yes he was.........Korea & Vietnam proved this......10's of thousands of Killed an wounded American an Allied Servicemen an women......fighting Communism .....Ike was wrong..........

He should have been charged with war crimes after ww2 for starving germans to death.

Many military strategists believe the Hurtgen campaign and the slow slog of the Bulge broad front was unnecessarily costly in American life.

@@rolltide9547 yup. Reading about it now in John Wear's "Germany's War." If the allies had to surrender, all their military and leaders would be facing capital war crimes.

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@@scottodonnell7121 kind of like the bogus Nuremberg trials we pulled on them?

I do. I miss those Thursday nights with Magnum and Simon and Simon.

It was MacArthur that said that.

Likewise depictions of Abraham Lincoln nearly always use a deep, ponderous voices for his utterances, but contemporaries tell us that he had a very high voice for a man.

tRuE aMeRiCaN wArRiOr

Really? Was he caring for his men with whom is slapping them for malingering when they were actually sick? Ike should have sent his ass home

@@keithziegler8881No one said he was perfect. If Ike sent him home, he would have lost a talented, hard driving general at a vital point in the war.

@@keithziegler8881 I think if you're going to look at a reason to look down at Patton, it would be about Task Force Baum (look it up).

He ultimately got that wish. He is buried in Europe with the rest of the fallen soldiers of his Army. Never came back.

Because to be sent home as a general just as the final push to victory was beginning would have exposed him as a risk to operations and, it must be said, to his own men. It would have meant spending the rest of his career at a desk, unable to be a publicly-recognized hero, unable to get what he craved - an audience.

62202ify I have yet to see an apology for Poland from the Russians or any kind of restitution gesture. Where was the UN to exact our Pearl Harbor animosity here or do we unleash it at Nuremberg?

@@robrutt7129 EXACTLY

Well, Patton was not a good general the man neglected the importance of logistics.

Patton had the luxury of knowing he would always have more men, tanks, guns and air cover than the enemy. That is a huge difference.

@@robrutt7129 i have yet to see the Americans apologize for dropping 2 Atomic Bombs on Japan

No one ever will.

The guy playing Montgomery wasn't as good as Michael Bates in Patton either.

Ironic that people love him and that role so damn much since he neither looked nor sounded a damn thing like the real George Patton.

@@ashleighelizabeth5916 Scott did a better job playing Patton than did Patton.

You want more born wealthy leaders who act like tough guys? We actually have PLENTY of them today...

@@Yoseman1 not proud yet powerful southern Anglo Saxon chads like him tho

@@kommando5562 Powerful? No...

@@kommando5562 Anglo snakesons are a dying race and will soon be wiped off

They feared Hitler too. You are confusing military competence with character. If you don't understand Ike's words about a "racially pure America" and the dangers of that kind of thinking then I can only assume you agree with Patton, hence the impassioned defense of him.

Not exactly true. There were multiple such incidents of Patton slapping soldiers suffering from PTSD. The George C. Scott movie combines two incidents into one. You simply cannot sum up Patton very well. Great tank commander but he absolutely didn't have handle on dealing with the politics. The Russians were our allies and whether he liked them or not his comments during the war was detrimental. As an ordinary citizen he has a right to speak his mind. But not as a US General.

@@nikolatesla5553 when political concerns are put ahead of winning a war..... a war can be lost, certainly initiative at critical times. I don't think this movie scene is completely accurate. I think Eisenhower was aware that Stalin was not our friend, allied with us, yes but never our friend. Donald Bennett served under Patton and commanded an artillery battalion, later became a 3 star General himself. I value his opinion over Hollywood portrayals of General Patton. Political correctness costs lives.

Hmmmm, well Patton was in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and he commanded Third Army in the Western advance . . . so, no, I doubt the war would have ended much sooner.

@@markmerzweiler909 German Generals were quoted as saying that the war could have been won in the fall of 1944 if General Patton would've been allowed the leeway to proceed like he wanted. Eisenhower had to listen to FDR.

When disrespect is given, as was the case of Ike towards Patton, why should any respect be given back. Like he saying goes "You sow what you reap." Ike sowed disrespect. He received it back.

Even so, Ike was still his commanding officer, and Patton was well out of order in that respect.

Omar Bradley's book "A soldier's story" would be a good place to start.

@@theconservative1967 Eisenhower didn't so we need. He showed patently exact respect you deserve. What Patton forgot is that he answers to other people. He thought that he was top dog and he wasn't, and he learned that lesson.

Eisenhower is listed at 5 ft, 10+1⁄2 in on the "heights of the presidents" page. Average height for men born in 1890 along with him was 5 ft, 6 +1⁄2 in. He would have probably been perceived about the same as a 6'0 is today. He's a couple inches shorter than Patton (who is listed at 6'1" and I verified by looking at photos of them standing side by side). He's about 5" taller than Monty. Eisenhower's son was about 6'3 tho and towers over him (looks like beanpole too). Eisenhower was taller than the admirals visiting the pacific fleet while president and in pictures of him with the troops, he's in the middle height wise.

If I was under his command I would probably think he is 7

sempermilites87 Ike was a great man. When he was president, his CNO was Arleigh Burke who jumped from Rear Admiral to 4 stars to assume the job of CNO (jumping over 20+ officers senior to him). Burke would stand if any officer who was senior to him enter the room even though he held the top job.

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Now all the Ulta conservative so-called Patriots are playing into the hands of the Russians. Ironic isn't it?

George was right about the Germans.

And so Stalin was right about the West?

He was right about everything