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The White House gets to say anything it wants. The general doesn't.

..... by a haberdasher from Missouri that very few people respected (at the time).

I remember that (I got me 60+ to your 50+). I think it was -- who? -- Lincoln that did it before that. In any case, it is rare and it is serious. Each is cornered and there is no way out but the hard way.

Openly defied and acted against President Truman's explicit orders. McCrystal, on the other hand, merely expressed an opinion to a reporter. (Not to excuse such voicing of opinion, but to only note the difference.)

And Lincoln, I believe, fired more generals than we can count - finally settling on my very own G-G-G-G Uncle, U.S. Grant (Yes, he really was.)

P.S. I really like Truman, by the way. (And I grew up not too far from his home in Independence, Missouri.)

For the roll of toilet paper he kept on his desk.

Everybody uses it, he said; even, Maxwell.

opinions are like a$$holes, everyone has one and they usually stink. got it's inspiration.

Truman's roll of TP.

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I could have literally, without a doubt, taken the city bus (or asked my parents to take me) from my home just across the Missouri/Kansas state line to Truman's home in Independence, Missouri (probably ~25 miles), knocked on the door, and sat on the former president's front porch to pass the time, chew the fat, etc., with Harry S Truman.

I sure wish I would have done that.

I don't agree with all of his policies, but I sure like the moxie he had.

Are you related to the Edison too?