He compared FDR to LBJ. FDR listened to his best military men like George Marshall even when he didn't like what they told him. LBJ, in contrast, brought his top generals into the Oval Office and cursed them out.
No wonder FDR did much better dealing with Germany and Japan than LBJ did with a poor peasant country nobody had heard of until JFK started sending troops there.
I believe Victor Krulak would have been Commandant of the Marine Corps except that he insisted on telling the truth to LBJ instead of saying what the President wanted him to tell him.
Yep. And close to the same thing occurred before both the Afghan and Iraqi invasions. The tactical generals (not the political ones in DC) thought Rumsfeld's "just-enough" troop strategy was unwise. Rumsfeld shouted those objections down.