In the chapter of Harry Truman’s memoirs that deals with the firing of General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean war, one word instantly caught Douglas MacArthur’s eye: “insubordination.” ...

The more experienced MacArthur saw himself as intellectually superior to younger presidents and so talked down to both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. He thought the wisdom of his ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...