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b'Today we are going to be discussing one of the more polarizing figures in American military history. That being, General Douglas MacArthur. During World War II, MacArthur was lauded by the American public and press. He was seen by many as a messiah, a description that he himself never once shrugged off as being false or overly exaggerated. He often stated, publicly and privately, that he was the only person that could possibly lead the United States to victory over the Japanese, that he himself should be the supreme commander and that he himself was the only person who knew what the hell he was doing.'