The smashing victory that MacArthur had engineered at Inchon in September 1950 was swept away two months later when 300,000 Chinese troops poured across the Yalu River. In the spring of 1951 the Korean War was not going well.
The clash between Truman and MacArthur turned on what to do about China. And it nearly sparked a constitutional crisis.
It remains one of the best speeches in American history. He immediately returned to the United States, and on April 19th, 1951, gave a rousing speech to a joint session of Congress. He appointed Douglas McArthur commander of all UN (and U.S.) forces in Korea in June 1950, only to relieve him of command ten months later for publicly challenging administration policy. McClellan to fight, finally relieved him of command of the Army of the Potomac, and then beat him decisively in the 1864 election.īut the president who had the most tempestuous confrontation with a general was Harry Truman. Polk worried (rightly) that Winfield Scott was hankering after his job. But for a president, generals can be an enormous pain-and a political threat. We have elected twelve of them president.
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