When the shooting starts, they have to send for the ?sons of bitches.? Thus, legend has it, Admiral Ernest King responded to a reporter?s question why he, at age 63, was chosen by President Franklin Roosevelt to lead the Navy after Pearl Harbor. King, always blunt, was indeed an SOB: a vain, hot-tempered, argumentative, hard-drinking womanizer. FDR knew all this and picked him over eight more senior admirals because King was a doer and a fighter.
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