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Douglas MacArthur's Secret Affair With a Filipino Starlet
Douglas MacArthur is famous for liberating us from the Japanese, but he's also known to have had a passionate affair with Dimples Cooper.”
Steamy, and definitely a mark against McArthur, especially from the perspective of today’s “Me too” movement, but both Hegseth and Trump have done far worse, each with several women.
On the positive side of MacArthur’s ledger,he was run out of the Philippines by the Japanese in ‘42, but as he left, he promised to return…
and made good on that promise two and a half years later when he returned with an army that liberated the Philippines and drove the Japanese back to their home islands.nglehandey
After he accepted the Japanese surrender, he proved an able administrator who was primarily responsible for writing the postwar Japanese constitution that remains today- almost without modification.
We’re all a mixture of sunlight and shadows, LM. MacArthur was vain, bombastic, and at least with Ms Cooper, proved to be a womanizer. But compared the serial womanizers Trump and Hegseth, his indiscretions were minor. Plus, there’s never been accusations that he beat women or instigated an attempt to overthrow the government…..
