![]() ![]() During both terms in office Congress blocked many of his initiatives to implement his “Fair Deal” policy of social reform. The war in Korea was only one of his disappointments. I fired him because he wouldn’t respect the presidency.” Harry later commented (and I paraphrase) “I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb bleep-short bleep-longer bleep, although he was. When MacArthur sought to impose the military authority over the civil and was basically insubordinate, Truman fired him. was only five years from the conclusion of World War II. ![]() The president was concerned that strategy would bring Russia (now with nuclear weapons) into the war and the U.S. He wanted to bomb beyond the North Korean boundary into China and attack the enemy across that border. Douglas MacArthur was commander of the Far East military and had his own views of the Korean conflict. This ushered in a difficult phase of Truman’s presidency. He was unable to end the Chinese civil war, and then to support his commitment to collective security was forced to involve the U.S. ![]()
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