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    Mattis Takes Swipe At Trump: 'I Earned My Spurs On The Battlefield'

    In a speech blending humor with a serious message, the former secretary of defense also quoted a warning by Lincoln against a leader "unfettered by conscience, precedent or decency."
    by Scott Neuman Oct 18, 2019 2 minutes

    President Trump fired him (after he submitted his resignation) and earlier this week reportedly called him "the world's most overrated general," but former Defense Secretary James Mattis had a few barbs of his own to sling in a speech he gave in New York on Thursday.

    Delivering the keynote address at the 75th Alfred E. Smith Memorial

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