 | Robert Dallek - History - 1995 - 688 pages
...Army's budget, MacArthur "spoke recklessly ... to the general effect that when we lost the next war, and an American boy, lying in the mud with an enemy bayonet...last curse, I wanted the name not to be MacArthur but Roosevelt. The President grew livid. 'You must not talk that way to the President!' he roared." MacArthur... | |
 | Jeffery S. Underwood - Air power - 1991 - 262 pages
...the president with his arguments. MacArthur said that when the United States lost the next war, "and an American boy, lying in the mud with an enemy bayonet...foot on his dying throat spat out his last curse, [he] wanted the name not to be MacArthur but Roosevelt." The president replied lividly, "You must not... | |
 | Brenda Haugen - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 120 pages
...exhaustion I spoke recklessly and said something to the general effect that when we lost the next war, and an American boy, lying in the mud with an enemy bayonet...curse, I wanted the name not to be MacArthur, but Roosevelt. MacArthur immediately realized he shouldn't have talked to the president this way. He apologized... | |
 | Stanley Weintraub - History - 2007 - 561 pages
...general effect that when we lost the next war, and an American boy, lying in the mud with an enemy bullet through his belly, and an enemy foot on his dying...curse, I wanted the name not to be MacArthur, but Roosevelt." *It would be the last March 4 inaugural. Beginning in 1936, the date was moved forward... | |
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I spoke recklessly and said something to the general effect that when we lost the next war, and an American boy, lying in the mud with an enemy bayonet through his belly and an enemy foot on his dying throat, spat out his last curse, I wanted the name... 