That was the Presidential candidacy of General Douglas MacArthur. For a year and more ... He was first in his class at West Point (1903). With his father, Lieut. General Arthur MacArthur, he ...

Douglas MacArthur lived his entire life ... Douglas received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1898. Over the next four years, he would achieve one of the ...

When General Sir Thomas Blamey heard that General Douglas MacArthur had been appointed Supreme ... A general's son who topped his class at West Point, MacArthur had led a combat division in France, ...

Of all the great American captains of World War II, none remains more controversial than General Douglas MacArthur ... Herman’s point is not that MacArthur was a saint, only that, by the ...

And instead of Michie Stadium, where West Point graduations have been held since the 1960s, commencement that year was on the ...

On April 5, 1964, General Douglas MacArthur died from kidney and ... He had just graduated number one in his class from West Point. His next assignment was almost 20 years later as the head ...

The clash between Truman and MacArthur turned on what to do about ... over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but ...