Re: A history list

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I would never consider MacArthur a Liberal...Moderate OK...
Liberal NO way...Taft may have been Right Wing
So anything toward Conservative would have been Left Wing to him.

DF


Marc James Small wrote:

> At 05:05 AM 10/22/02 EDT, SDonell73@aol.com wrote:
> >What a joke that is, or maybe it's just a case of being misinformed.
> >Liberals for Mac had about the same standing as Jews for Hitler. MacArthur
> >was a darling of the Conservatives. If you can't accept that check out any
> >bio of Mac. They supported his election for president,
>
> Uh, Sandy?  Planet Earth to Sandy?  Check the record.  MacArthur was what
> would now be known as a liberal Republican -- his closest political
> cronies, Hoover and the like, were hardly on the Taft wing, and it was
> Taft's refusal to have ANYTHING to do with "that left-wing MacArthur" which
> threw the 1952 nomination to the moderate nebbish, Eisenhower.
>
> Again, the record on this one is clear:  MacArthur was a moderate liberal,
> and so were his political friends.
>
> And I suppose I'll now be exposed to some incoherent responses.  If so,
> Sandy, hold your peace.  Read and learn.  Talk with the surviving politicos
> of the era.  Then let's talk -- but, let's do so off-list, as we are
> pushing the limits of what is, after all, a military history list.
>
> Marc
>
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