He attacked the WWI Bonus Marchers. He couldn’t kick out FDR, they tried to buy Old Gimlet Eye, who went to Congress.
That MacArthur attacked the 1932 Bonus Marchers is
a lie. I had a family friend who witnessed the Bonus
March and this gentleman was an active duty Marine so
he had no particular affection for Mac. Less than ten
years later this friend encountered MacArthur again
in the Philippines. As to the rest...kicking out FDR?...
...Old Gimlet Eye? Gibberish
McArthur’s worst catastrophe was his alignment of parked planes allowing essentially his entire air force to be destroyed on the ground in the Philippines. William Manchester in his “American Caesar” has him going into a sort of detachment from which he seemed unable to recover in the moment, and thus lost whatever contact he may have had with his command...such that it mattered.
He was a complex self-promoter (Dugout Doug), but I also think he turned from disaster to become one of America’s great strategists.
One cannot listen to his “Duty Honor Country” speech at West Point (1966?) and not hear his exhortations to the Corps - the Long Grey Line - while simultaneously thanking God for the honor of having so served his country.