The War: Cards on the Table

(See Cover) This was no MacArthur, moving Congress to tears at the end of a distinguished career with his threnody, "Old soldiers never die . . ." Nor was this an Eisenhower, home from his triumphant crusade in Europe to accept the lustrous tributes of the nation's lawmakers. This was a commander whose battle is far from finished, on leave from his post to report on a divisive, hotly debated and unpopular war. He will never be treated as a demigod, as was the charismatic MacArthur, and he is not yet a...

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