whitehall
Diamond Member
The 65 year old Truman's war aka the Korean Conflict is center stage these days so it's interesting to note that General MacArthur aka the "Old Soldier" was relieved of duty on 4/11 1951 for gross disrespect and negligence but he received a ticker tape parade on 4/20 1951 sponsored by the NYC based media. Was the parade a political stunt designed to cast President Truman in a bad light or was it an indication of how out of touch the media was with the reality of the "Forgotten War"? Was there some sort of conspiracy to save MacArthur's legacy at the expense of a seemingly popular democrat president?