"I did not see Julius Caesar's return to Rome, but I am sure that in comparison it looked like a deuce of spades."
— William D. Leahy

January 1, 1970

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Comment by Leahy on Douglas MacArthur's return to the United States after being relieved of command in Korea by President Harry S. Truman, in a 20 April 1951 letter to MacArthur's nephew Douglas MacArthur II. As quoted by Henry H. Adams in Witness to Power: The Life of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (1985), p. 342