On Sat, 31 May 2008 15:36:22 -0700, Chambers wrote:

> andrel wrote:
>> "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in
>> a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave
>> national emergency... Always there has been some terrible evil to
>> gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it  by furnishing the
>> exorbitant sums demanded.  Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem
>> never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real."
>>         -- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
>> 
>> (Possibly one of the offensive cookies)
> 
> I've got a great book on Harry S Truman.  You should see what he said
> about MacArthur.

Is the book "The Fifties" by David Halberstam?  The quote that's listed 
on wikiquote from there is about MacArthur's "Old soldiers never die" 
speech - "Nothing but a d*mn bunch of BS" (paraphrased).

Jim

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