Robert Patterson

Robert Porter Patterson (Sr.) (1891-1952) was the United States Under Secretary of War under President Franklin Roosevelt and the United States Secretary of War under President Harry Truman.

Robert Patterson in The Man With the Iron Heart
As Secretary of War, Robert Patterson was subject to the same scrutiny and criticism that faced the Truman Administration in the years after World War II and the rise of the German Freedom Front.

In 1947, Patterson was called before Congress to testify about the GFF's destruction of the American enclave in Frankfurt. He answered several questions from Congressman Jerry Duncan before Duncan's tone became badgering.