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Motion Picture MP2002-438

Screen Gems Collection (outtakes from the television series "Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman")

Administrative Information

Footage
140 feet
Running Time
4 minutes 28 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Harry S. Truman discusses how he and General MacArthur fell out over the Chinese entry into the Korean War. Sound only.

Date(s)
ca.
1961 - 1963

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Moving Image Type
Screen Gems

Shot List

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Reel 1

0:00   Harry S. Truman discusses how the situation in Korea made it necessary for him to meet with General Douglas MacArthur. He had invited MacArthur to come and make a report as other generals had done, but MacArthur wouldn't come, "something was always in the way, he just couldn’t make it."
0:37   Mr. Truman states that it was absolutely necessary to have a meeting with General MacArthur , so "if he wouldn't come to me, I would go to him." The meeting was essential because of persistent rumors that the communist Chinese were coming in.
1:04   Harry S. Truman discusses leaving from St. Louis to fly to Wake Island, that it was a difficult flight. He said some people told him that the General didn't salute him. "I didn't give a damn whether he saluted me or not." What he needed was a private meeting with MacArthur to ask him about the Chinese. He later called a meeting of the entire staff where MacArthur declared that "Red China would not come in to Korea."
2:26   Mr. Truman states: "And then you know that happened." Mr. Truman details how the Chinese poured in, driving us back. He said he and the American people were worried about a world war if we got mixed up with the Chinese communists.
3:32   Harry S. Truman declares he and General MacArthur fell out over the Chinese entry into the war. The General wanted to use the bomb and fight the Chinese. President Truman would not allow this.
4:05   Mr. Truman quotes a general from the Philippine War as saying he had thought General MacArthur's father (General Arthur MacArthur) was the most self-centered, egotistical person he had ever seen until he met his son.