"You couldn't shrug your shoulders at Douglas MacArthur," observes historian David McCullough. "There was nothing bland about him, nothing passive about him, nothing dull about him. There's no ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur delivered his "Old soldiers never die" speech to a joint session of Congress on this day in history, ...

Of all the great American captains of World War II, none remains more controversial than General Douglas MacArthur, whose genius and folly have taken on mythic proportions. MacArthur alone among ...

The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. "MacArthur" begins in 1942, following the fall of ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur walked out onto the porch of his cottage on the battered island of Corregidor in the early evening of March 11, 1942, joining his wife Jean and the couple’s four-year-old ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Douglas MacArthur is a General for the U.S. Army with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1952 Speech. Appearances by Title:c. July 7 ...

In the chapter of Harry Truman’s memoirs that deals with the firing of General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean war, one word instantly caught Douglas MacArthur’s eye: “insubordination.” ...