Harry Truman: “You will turn over your commands, effective at once, to Lt. Gen.…”

On the recordApril 10, 1951

You will turn over your commands, effective at once, to Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway.

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Democratic · Missouri

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Order by the President to General MacArthur.

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Harry Truman: “You will turn over your commands, effective at once, to Lt. Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway.”