Whom did Dwight D. Eisenhower call a "stubborn type, with not too much brains and a tendency toward bullying"?
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (1890 – 1969) served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe during the Second World War and as the 34th President of the United States. All of those mentioned in the answer options attracted adverse comment from other senior officers, both during and after their careers; Ike's quoted remarks, taken from his wartime diary, were made about Admiral King.
Ernest Joseph King (23 November 1878 – 25 June 1956) was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy who served as Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, and Chief of Naval Operations during the Second World War. In that conflict, he was the US Navy's second most senior officer after Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy. Two characteristics of Admiral King were widely known: he had an irascible nature (President Roosevelt once said that each morning King shaved with a blowtorch); he was strongly anti-British.
His Anglophobia may have cost many American lives. At the start of the US involvement in World War II, there were no blackouts on the US eastern seaboard, and coastal shipping did not travel in convoy. But convoys and seaboard blackouts were British proposals, and King was unwilling to have the US Navy adopt ideas from the Royal Navy. He also refused, until March 1942, the loan of British convoy escorts when the US had few suitable vessels. German U-boats exploited the situation and referred to their frequent torpedoing of US ships during this period as a “happy time.”
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