He redeemed himself as Sec. of War in WW-II.
By the way most ASA, NSG, AFSS guys would seriously object to being defamed as "gentlemen."
We may not always have comported ourselves as “gentlemen” whilst strutting our stuff on the streets of certain villages in Japan, Germany, The PI, Korea or Italy. But you can bet when we got home and if our mothers found out how badly we behaved, we’d get thumped for our candor.