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I couldn't sleep nights, George, if you were out of Washington.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's explanation of why he passed over Marshall, in naming Dwight D. Eisenhower as the Supreme Allied Commander in charge of "Operation Overlord", the D-Day invasion which Marshall had largely planned; as reported by Henry Stimson (c. 1943)
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Unsourced variant: I feel I could not sleep at night with you out of the country.

 

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