Netz, you have articulated my thoughts, quite well, better than I could have!
To you both:
The answer to us in today’s world is that kind of person is the answer.
The Pansies of today would not accept him because he had Brass B-LLs and smoked cigars.
We all know what happened to Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell and Gen. Stanley Allen McChrystal.
I remember Gen. LeMay as the the “MAN” at McDill AFB, when I visited my brother, stationed there, 1952-53.
The “Man” was too much for JFK and RFK.