RE: Harry Truman

The Korean war was abandoned by Ike. See earlier correspondence on this.

I suggest you set up another site if you want to piss on the current President so I can respond without clouding the issue.

Inspire 28

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From: owner-KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu [mailto:owner-KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Love Shack
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 2:21 PM
To: KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu
Subject: Re: Harry Truman

Truman was 100% correct.

He was the Commander in Chief not MacArthur.

Reading more about what was going on inside the military

and the feifdoms I would have done the same thing.

Truman had a large country to run.

MacArthur was only one pf the players.

Today it is the other way around we have no President.

Being rendered irrelevant AND THAT IS DANGEROUS.

Dan Fahey

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From: swan

To: KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu

Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:21 PM

Subject: Harry Truman

   He was a cantankerous guy, at times. In his oral biography, Plain Speaking, he said to the author, Merle Miller, "They say I was ambitious. I never was ambitious. If the only thing I'd ever done in my life was be the best damn battery commander I could be, I'd have settled for that."

   But when he spoke of firing Gen. MacArthur he said, "I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the President .... I didn't fire him because he was a dumb SOB, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail."

   With a Commander-in-Chief who thought like this it is no wonder we didn't win the war.

Bob Dove