On MacArthur’s part, he recorded in his memoir that they “talked of everything but the war—of our old carefree days when life was simpler and gentler, of many things that had disappeared in the mists of time.”48 Not having seen the president in many years, MacArthur was taken aback by his diminished appearance. He predicted, accurately, that FDR would not survive another term in office. But after watching the president lifted like a child and carried from wheelchair to car and back again, the general “marveled at the spiritual strength Roosevelt obviously possessed in order to retain his
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