Kennedy just had one major screw up. MacArthur had at least three major league screwups.
Wrong. Kennedy’s first major screw up was an affair with a female Danish reporter believed to be an Axis agent [she denied this] while JFK was assigned toDC- in Naval Intelligence. His old man gothim transferred to PT school in South Carolina to stop that. She followed, the affair resumed.
When Kennedy got to the Pacific, his second screw up was hitting a dock with the PT boat he was in command of. Damaged the dock. Damaged the boat.
And if any lesser mortal had screwed up the mission that got PT 109 sunk as badly as Kennedy, he would have been courtmartialled.
Concededly, those faux pas don’t rank with Dougie’s, but they were still ordering the bricks for Camelot back then, while MacArthur was already [to his own mind] a historical impulse of the first order.