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Mattis Takes Swipe At Trump: ‘I Earned My Spurs On The Battlefield’
By: Scott Neuman | NPR
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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.”