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Authorized public statement and was fired for insubordination. upon his return to the u.s. macarthur was regarded as a national hero and congressional leaders received 2 million pieces of mail in support of him. a few days later a republican snort everett dirkson appeared right here on "meet the press" and offered his take on the situation. >> senator, nobody is talking about anything other than general macarthur. would you tell us very briefly hon how you stand on the dismissal of general macarthur so we can follow that up? >> me, i can express it in a sentence or two. first of all, i thought...

Was fired for insubordination. upon his return to the u.s. macarthur was regarded as a national hero and congressional leaders received 2 million pieces of mail in support of him. a few days later a republican snort everett dirkson appeared right here on "meet the press" and offered his take on the situation. >> senator, nobody is talking about anything other than general macarthur. would you tell us very briefly hon how you stand on the dismissal of general macarthur so we can follow that up? >> me, i can express it in a sentence or two. first of all, i thought he made a deep and emphatic imp...

Commander of united nations forces in the korean war believed the only path to victory there would be an all-out offensive against china, a view not shared by president harry truman. so macarthur issued an unauthor jived statement threatening china and was fired for insubordination. upon return to the u.s., he was greeted as a national hero and congressional leaders received 2 million pieces of mail in support of him. a few days later republican senator everett dirkson appeared right here on "meet the press" and offered his take on the situation. >> senator, nobody is talking about anything bu...

And their own decisions about these policies. >> and phillip whenever we turn to this subject we think of modern day example like lyndon johnson. >> yeah. >> an outsized texan, formerly majority leader of the senate used to call his friend dig russell everett dirkson. he was popular in the police coming out of a national tragedy and all the members of the senate were wary about crossing him. >> and we just don't have that right now. in part it's because of the president's only political problems. his approval rating as of today in the gal up daily tracking poll stands at 39%. so more americans...

Phone rings, dirkson picks it up, says -- and all howard can say is him saying, mr. president, i just can't come down tonight, i was there last night. i was there the night before, i just got to go home. hangs up. 20 minutes passed, and he hears beagles barking in the hallway outside his office. and lbj walks in with his dogs. so because he wouldn't come down to see him, johnson called a car, got in and came up to just force a conversation with dirkson. >> and lyndon johnson -- >> and we got a bill. >> and by the way, l lyndon johnson. he's so detached and disconnected from the hill, he would ...