What Eisenhower Really Thought of MacArthur

Get both copies of German Command Ebooks here: https://highcommandww2.com/ Dwight Eisenhower spent seven years working for Douglas MacArthur in the 1930s—first in Washington, then in Manila. The public story is gratitude and respect. His diary tells a different story. Between 1935 and 1939, Eisenhower served as MacArthur's chief assistant on the Philippine defense plan, working directly with President Quezon while MacArthur accepted the rank of field marshal. The diary entries from Manila—kept at the Eisenhower Library and published decades after both men died—record Eisenhower's private judgment of MacArthur's ego, his inflated cost estimates, and what Ike saw as a devotion to personal glory over mission. The same officer who wrote that MacArthur had "become only pathetic" in October 1937 would praise him carefully in public for the next thirty years. After MacArthur's death in 1964, Eisenhower called him an outstanding military leader. The diary, unpublished until 1998, shows what he thought when the conference room door closed.