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Picking up steam, he whisked over to Capitol Hill to present Alben Barkley with a gavel turned from wood used in the 1817 reconstruction of the White House. It was Barkley's 38th anniversary in Congress, and both the President and the Veep were in fine fettle. Since he had never quite made the White House, quipped Barkley, "the President has brought a piece of the White House to me." The Senate roared, and Harry Truman cracked back: "I'm in pretty good health yet." Then the President shook hands all around, not overlooking such of his current...
Last January he left the Academy for Korea, to command the IX Corps engaged on the bloody central front below the 38th parallel. Last week Bryant Moore flew over the front in a helicopter. Above the Han River, near Yoju, he told his pilot to go down for a closer look. The plane's rotor hit a cable. It crashed...
...Cross the 38th parallel...
...worked well. [But] we must not fall into the error of evaluating such . . . successes as decisively leading to the enemy's defeat." MacArthur added that the mountainous terrain, outnumbered U.N. forces, and political decisions over which he had no control made "purely academic" any talk of crossing the 38th parallel...
...establishment of the 38th parallel boundary...