Thursday, April 5, 1951
The situation with regard to the Far Eastern General has become a political one.
MacArthur has made himself a center of controversy, publicly and privately. He has always been a controversial figure.
He has had two wives - one a social light he married at 42, the other a Tennessee girl he married in his middle fifties after No 1 had divorced him.
He was chief of staff in the Hoover regime, made the front pages in the bonus affair. He was advisor to the President of the Philippines and Supreme Commander in the Pacific in World War II.
I made him Allied Commander in Chief in Japan to sign the surrender documents for the United States.
Made Chief of the occupation forces and Allied Commander for the United Nations forces in Korea in June 1950.