Concluding the two-part profile of American military legend Douglas MacArthur.
The Politics of War. In 1942, MacArthur had presided over the worst defeat in the US history, the surrender of more than 70,000 troops at Bataan and Corregidor. His quest to rescue the men he left behind became one of the greatest sagas of the Second World War.
In his last campaign as leader of forces in Korea, he bridled under the constraints of the nuclear age and, in 1951, President Truman relieved him of his command. When, in 1964, he died in Washington DC, tens of thousands of mourners paid tribute. But
Eisenhower and Truman were not among them. (S)