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“I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old be merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.” Douglas MacArthur Gallery“I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old be merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul.” Douglas MacArthur
Supreme Commander: MacArthur’s Trimuph in Japan By Seymour Morris, Jr. chats with Dr. Alvin
Seymour Morris Click Here To Listen He is the most decorated general in American history—the only five-star general to receive the Medal of Honor. Yet Douglas MacArthur's greatest victory was not in war, but in peace. As Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in postwar Japan, General Douglas MacArthur was charged with transforming the defeated militarist empire into a beacon of peace and democracy, a task he called "the greatest gamble ever attempted." A career military man, MacArthur had no experience in politics, diplomacy, or economics. Vain, reclusive, and self-centered, he had many enemies in Washington who considered him a flaming peacock. Few thought he could succeed, not even President Harry Truman's closest advisors. But [...]