I, Peng Dehuai, am not MacArthur. I will not be taken in by this!" One other man who was not overawed by the head of the Far East Command was, of course, President Harry S. Truman, who relieved ...

"The dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by the Truman administration was a disastrous blow to the prestige of American foreign policy and to the fate of the Far East," Colonel Lawrence Bunker ...

It was ratified in 1949. Truman refused to commit the U.S. to war in China and relieved Douglas MacArthur from his command. Strained relations with Russia resulted in the Berlin Airlift—the dropping ...

Ridgway stabilized the military situation near the prewar boundary at the 38th parallel, MacArthur's months of public and private bickering with the Truman administration soon came to a head.

U.S. President Harry S Truman and his commander in the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur, disagree on war strategy. Their conflict comes to a head when Truman relieves the insubordinate ...

Douglas MacArthur here is the infamous April 11, 1951, letter of termination from President Harry Truman, effectively ending ...

President Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur at President Truman's arrival at the Wake Island Conference. Credit: Department of State On April 25, 1951, the Senate unanimously approved ...

"MacArthur" begins in 1942 ... MacArthur's days of forced retirement after being dismissed from his post by President Truman.