fso301: Post-war ambitions are a different matter. At the moment, I believe the speculation revolves around this November's election. Nothing I have ever read suggested he was interested in the 1944 presidential election.
Homer: Whoever supplied this item evidently though otherwise -
“For MacArthur, who celebrated with a chocolate ice-cream soda as he toured the beach-heads, the victory is a consolation for his fading presidential hopes following his defeat in the Republican primary at Wisconsin three weeks ago.”
No fair reading for detail!
Thanks! Learn a new thing every day. If I ever came across that, I must have skimmed over it and quickly forgotten about it because it didn't pertain directly to the war. Sorry tax-chick for having steered you wrong.