Word: macarthurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your July 28 cover story Maxwell Taylor sounds like the best thing to happen to the U.S. Military Establishment since General MacArthur...
...Taylor was the second youngest man to be superintendent. The youngest: Douglas MacArthur, who was superintendent at 39. Lee, Taylor's hero...
Home from a tour of the Philippines, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 81, who had his differences with the last Democratic President, received an unexpected invitation to a White House luncheon with a bipartisan body of Government leaders. After President Kennedy praised MacArthur for his "triumphant" tour, the general thanked the President for making him "feel a part of the current scene." Later the vigorous vintage soldier offered his impressions of the onetime sailor in the White House: "He seems to have changed very little since he was one of my PT-boat commanders in the Pacific...
...incidents are diffuse and not well related, as such threads as there are end inconclusively. The work lacks the focal personage of two it badly needs. All these soldiers are gathered, but Priam is no Lee and Agamemnon is no Grant, not to mention an Alexander of a MacArthur. Nor is the work mainly about Troilus and Cressida any more than Julius Caesar is mainly about Caesar...
...When MacArthur last saw the Philippines in 1946, the islands lay prostrate...