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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion On MacArthur At War 20160703

He has previously written the admiral, which was the winner of the Samuel Eliot Morrison award in naval literature. His commentaries appeared in the new york times, Washington Post and wall street journal and other places. So without continuing for too long we are all here to hear walter borneman. [applause] thank you so much. Its wonderful to be here in hyde park, and i indeed going to talk about macarthur, macarthur at war world war ii in the pacific but a really thought i wanted to bring this because of our historic venue. A little bit more about the relationship between Douglas Macarthur and Franklin Roosevelt. And permit me if you will to actually start with someone else, admiral william leahy. Now, you roosevelt scholars in the room know him as ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion On MacArthur At War 20160722

Thing is they hired a copy editor to go through and check the facts and spellings. They checked the names of these american soldiers and it was remarkable the kind of work they did. I taught english, not history. And as you might expect, i had some discussions with them. They wanted me to explain the unknown soldier was. And i said look if i ask you to people that are going to buy a history book that the soldiers and unknown soldier from france i said i would be laughed out of the whole. The general ever a justification for what he did, or did he protect him enough that he never had to deal with them . The one thing he did, this isnt the first thing he did Something Like this to another officer. It had happened before. But he knew the best defense was isa good offense. And after he passed by, he began to complain they are shooting at us from the hill. So that takes a lot to complain about but when you havent done what you should h ....

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