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ORIGINAL: dwesolick Interesting quote about King by one of his daughters (from Van der Vat's The Pacific Campaign: "[King] is the most even-tempered man in the Navy, he is always in a rage." Admiral King was... interesting. He always claimed (correctly I believe) he earned his promotions based on merit not because people liked him. Even his detractors of the day admitted he was a very smart and capable leader, and he seems to have gotten results, which might explain the wide support he received. “Admiral King, commander in chief of United States fleet, and directly subordinate to the president, is an arbitrary, stubborn type, with not too much brains and a tendency toward bullying his juniors. But I think he wants to fight, which is vastly encouraging.” Dwight D Eisenhower 23rd February, 1942 “One thing that might help win this war is to get someone to shoot King. He's the antithesis of cooperation, a deliberately rude person, which means he's a mental bully.” Dwight D Eisenhower 10th March, 1942: “Admiral King claimed the Pacific as the rightful domain of the Navy; he seemed to regard the operations there as almost his own private war; he apparently felt that the only way to remove the blot on the Navy disaster at Pearl Harbor was to have the Navy command a great victory over Japan; he was adamant in his refusal to allow any major fleet to be under other command than that of naval officers although maintaining that naval officers were competent to command ground or air forces; he resented the prominent part I had in the Pacific War; he was vehement in his personal criticism of me and encouraged Navy propaganda to that end; he had the complete support of the Secretary of the Navy, Knox, the support in general principle of President Roosevelt and his Chief of Staff, Admiral Leahy, and in many cases of General Arnold, the head of the Air Force.” Letter from General George Marshall to Douglas MacArther (Post Teheran Conference)
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