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Offline TomSea

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Fox News, November 18, 2016:

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Four essential things Douglas MacArthur would tell President-elect Donald Trump
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As Donald Trump, our new president-elect, starts to plan for the future, the man he should turn to for advice may have died more than fifty years ago, but his words and deeds live on. He’s General Douglas MacArthur, who actually has a lot in common with Donald Trump—and should be one of his role models as president.   

Like Trump, MacArthur was a maverick, an anti-establishment figure.  His rise to supreme command in World War Two and Korea, and during the occupation of Japan, came in the teeth of opposition of America’s political elites who saw him as  vain and arrogant but couldn’t deny his long list of achievements reaching back to winning seven Silver Stars in World War One—or his gift for seeing the possibility of victory when others saw only looming defeat.

Like Trump, MacArthur understood the power of the iconic image, whether it was MacArthur’s corn cob pipe and the khaki hat with its gold leaf and ornate design—or Donald Trump’s signature hair.


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