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To: elpadre
After the war it is the American who rebuilt the nation of Japan

Japan had Douglas MacArthur, we got Eisenhower.

Nearly 50 years ago some local station in Missouri ran a ten or twelve part series with Truman, he really did not like MacArthur.

41 posted on 05/27/2016 8:31:30 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't finish a sentence, but he will finish a term.)
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To: itsahoot
Japan had Douglas MacArthur, we got Eisenhower.

Nearly 50 years ago some local station in Missouri ran a ten or twelve part series with Truman, he really did not like MacArthur.

That's one reason why MacArthur was given Japan. It kept him out of US politics.

45 posted on 05/27/2016 9:01:25 AM PDT by Roccus (POLITICIAN...............a four letter word spelled with ten letters.)
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To: itsahoot
"Nearly 50 years ago some local station in Missouri ran a ten or twelve part series with Truman, he really did not like MacArthur. "

For good reason: MacArthur was ten times as smart as Truman.

49 posted on 05/27/2016 9:33:09 AM PDT by TXnMA (Recorded for posterity...)
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To: itsahoot

IMO, both were great leaders but with entirely different styles. MacArthur liked formality, fanfare, cameras, the limelight. Truman was informal, simple and didn’t like limelight. MacArthur’s headlines I am sure, just rubbed Truman raw.


52 posted on 05/27/2016 9:46:03 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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