This was the big retirement party President Harry Truman threw for General Douglas MacArthur in June 1950 on the Korean peninsula between mainland China and Japan. This military bash lasted clear until July 1953, long after Truman departed the White House and a grateful America put Dwight Eisenhower at the helm.It even lasted after Truman booted MacArthur out of his own retirement party in April 1951 for being a spoiled, bad boy by trying to invite China and Russia to join the festivities. And that was because the food, lodging and fireworks had already been bought and paid for.
