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From richard welty <!welty@uu.psi.com>

In article <C15yLF.KtC@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Frank Kastenholz <samsung!ulowell!vax.ftp.com!kasten@uunet.uu.net> writes:
>There also are more recent examples, such as the Army's eviction of
>some WWI veterans from the Mall in Washington DC during the
>Depression (the vets were camping on the Mall, demonstrating that
>they should get money from the Government).  General MacArthur and
>then-Colonel Eisenhower were in charge of this operation.

the bonus army incident is not one of the more glorious episodes
in the history of the US Army; in fact, i'll wager that if Eisenhower
were alive, he'd be rather unhappy to be characterized as one of those
in charge of the operation.  Stephen Ambrose, in his biography of
Eisenhower, makes it clear that Eisenhower was exceedingly unhappy with
MacArthur's handling of the situation.

cheers,
  richard
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