re: #460 The Ghost of a Flea

Read Halberstam’s “The Coldest Winter.”

Prima donna is freaking kind. The man was a narcissist loon who couldn’t admit when he fucked up, ever.

My dad told me the story (apocryphal, I assume) that Mac left a couple of US Army nurses behind when he evacuated the Philippines. Apparently, there was no room for them.

See, he’d evacuated his office furniture and sadly, those poor nurses just had to suck it up and stay behind.

Another story he told me was about MacArthur’s “I have returned” newsreel footage - it was filmed more than once. In one instance, he got knocked over by a wave. Heh.