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...Like MacArthur returning to the Phillipines, so did Dan Quayle return to the San Fransisco Commonwealth Club. The club was the site of the infamous Murphy Brown speech, a seeming fiasco that led to the pilloring of Quayle for months afterward. Now Quayle feels vindicated, and with reason...
March 11, 1942 Douglas C. MacArthur leaves the Philippines. The 78,000 Allied forces surrender on April 9 and are subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March by the Japanese Army...
...popular with his troops and the public. Behind the image, however, he was a thoroughly professional soldier who paid attention to almost nothing but his profession, living and eating alone in a trailer in the midst of his army. With an ego nearly as large as General Douglas MacArthur's, he was good at public relations but bad at human relations...
...MacArthur Foundation got wind of McCarthy about the time Suttree was * coming along, and in 1981 he was awarded one of its genius grants. Shelby Foote said, "I told the MacArthur people that he would be honoring them as much as they were honoring him." Saul Bellow mentioned his "absolutely overpowering use of language, his life-giving and death-dealing sentences." Part of the grant money went to free the author from tumbledown motels: he bought a dog-eared little stone-and-stucco affair the color of mayonnaise left out too long, a dirt yard out front and no space...
...Tensions between the media and the government,if they are too strained, are not good for therepublic," Trainor said. He said that MacArthur"oversimplified the difficult business ofreporting...