Admiral Ernest King, a key US military leader during World War II, had a strong disagreement with General Douglas MacArthur regarding command in the Southwest Pacific. Despite this, King promised to proceed even without army forces support.
General Swing, in charge of INS, appointed to lead the U.S. Border Patrol in an intensive, innovative, and paramilitary law enforcement campaign to end illegal Mexican immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Coalition helicopter pilots experienced a period of self-doubt and uncertainty about their readiness to be part of the team after one of their partners lost some of their operators in a mission.
Eisenhower, one of the most powerful men in the world for a brief moment after WWII, said "freedom is better defined as the opportunity for self-discipline" which contradicts the common idea of discipline as a means of achieving success, but ultimately can lead to true freedom.
The podcast discusses the McGuire scandal, where banker Bernard "Bernie" Cornfeld scammed his clients of millions of dollars, and how it contributed to the larger banking crisis of the 1960s.
The speaker talks about overcoming health and mental challenges and difficulties in his recruiting and handling agents during his career as a CIA agent.