and said, i would like to have a meeting with jean gordon. but i want it to be a surprise. don't tell her i'm asking for this. he said, sure. so jean gordon shows up in the office. and there's beatrice. she kind of stands there. and jean gordon is shocked. and beatrice lays out an hawaiian curse on her. one that, may the flesh run off your skin, and freaks her out. she screams and runs out of the room. two weeks later jean gordon commits suicide, puts her head in the oven and turns the gas on. carlo deste wrote about this and said the rumor, he had not been able to verify it, that she left a note, i'm going to be with george before you. so in 1953, beatrice passes away. she had a blood clot to the brain, much like her husband, after she fell off a horse. the children want to bury her with him. the military says, no. only the soldiers are allowed to be buried there, no spouses, nobody else. so they cremate her, bury her in the backyard near a big tree, and about four years later they dig it up and put some of the ashes in an envelope, and they

i had mentioned jean gordon, the girl patton had an affair with. after his death, beatrice went to her brother-in-law and said, you know, i'd really like to have a meeting with jean gordon. could you have it be a surprise? don't tell her that i'm asking for this. sure. so jean gordon shows up in the office. and there's beatrice. and she kind of stands there. and, you know, jean gordon is shocked. and beatrice lays out an hawaii curse on her. and it's one of these may your flesh run off your skin. da, da, da. and just freaks her out. she screams and runs out of the room. two weeks later jean gordon commits suicide, puts her head in the oven and turns the gas on. and carlo deste. she did leave a note and said i'm going to be with george before you. so 1953, beatrice passes away. actually, she's on horseback and falls off. she had had a blood clot to the brain much like her husband. the children want to bury her with him in the luxembourg cemetery. the military says of course, no. only the soldiers are allowed to be buried there. no spouses, no one el

jean gordon pops up in patton's future. that wonderful weapon i told you about, the tank, is a very expensive weapon. the tank, is expensive weapon. and in 1920 the pentagon passes a budget with the pentagon, the war department passes a budget saying we can't afford to have a tank corps anymore. when patton returned from world war i goes to camp colt and this is where he meets a young dwight eisenhower. they talk tank tactics and ideas. beatrice tries to show mimi how to cook. it's not very successful. there was one story i read that eisenhower and patton would go driving around at night with a shotgun in their car looking for trouble. it kind of takes away from the presidential regal eisenhower, and makes it more of a warrior type of story. the tank corps split up. they gave some of the tanks to the infantry, some to the cavalry. some of the cavalrymen said we need to make a separate tank core. patton is not part of this. he does not want to rock the boat. he goes back into the cavalry. so these other officers find an old