General Douglas MacArthur - Address Before Congress, April 19, 1951 "Old Soldiers Never Die" flac album

Farewell Address to Congress. delivered 19 April 1951. Audio mp3 of Address. Plug-in required for flash audio. Your browser does not support the audio element.

Old Soldiers Never Die" (Farewell Address to Congress)-General Douglas MacArthur (April 19, 1951). Added to the National Registry: 2004 Essay by Christopher Sterling (guest post). General Douglas MacArthur. Much of the nation was listening on radio as General of the Army Douglas MacArthur began to address a joint session of Congress at midday on Thursday, April 19, 1951. The scene was unprecedented as the General had been relieved of his command in Korea just days before by President Harry Truman.

Douglas MacArthur addressing Congress on April 19, 1951. Ed Maloney/AP Photoo. Douglas MacArthur addresses Congress, April 19, 1951. Douglas MacArthur as commander of United Nations forces battling North Korean and communist Chinese forces on the Korean Peninsula, MacArthur received a hero’s welcome as he addressed a joint meeting of Congress. MacArthur had openly challenged Truman by threatening to attack China directly - a strategy Truman feared would spark a wider war in Asia. At the time, many Americans revered the 71-year-old general for having led a victorious campaign over the Japanese in World War II. A quarter-million people filled the National Mall and the route from the Washington Monument to the .

Tiro: old soldiers never die. Presentation by: Prof. PLO – Lumumba, L., D. Litt (hc), CPS (K), MKIM. In his farewell address before a joint meeting of both the houses of the Congress on the 19. th. Day of April, 1951, General Douglas MacArthur remarked, Old Soldiers Never Die. Today, we are gathered here to celebrate a soldier who though physically gone, is alive and well. Tiro, you are an old soldier, You will never die! The man from Dinokana The unshakable giant, and here you are Still calm and brave But why are you so quiet and unresponsive? I haven’t heard from you since February 1974 What did they do to you finally that made you so quiet?

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Image courtesy of the Library of Congress President Harry Truman, pictured above, relieved General Douglas MacArthur as commander of . forces in Korea on April 11, 1951. In summarizing his 52-year Army career, MacArthur waxed eloquent, concluding his speech by recalling a line from a West Point barracks song from his school days: 'Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away-an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Related Highlight Subjects.

April 19, 1951: At a farewell address before the United States Congress, MacArthur gives his famous "Old Soldiers Never Die" speech. May 1951: Retires a second time from the . Army, but is listed as permanently on active duty due to the regulations regarding those who hold the rank of General of the Army. For administrative reasons, he is assigned in absentee to the office of the Army Chief of Staff. 1952: Allows name to be placed on primary ballots for Republican nomination, but does not campaign or announce as a candidate. Senator Robert Taft promises supporters.

Old soldiers never die, They simply fade away. The song itself is a British Army's parody of the gospel song Kind Thoughts Can Never Di. .In the United States, the phrase was used by general Douglas MacArthur in his April 19, 1951 farewell address to the . Congress (which has become known the "Old Soldiers Never Die" speech):. but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away

In April 1951, Douglas MacArthur returned to the United States, where he was welcomed as a hero and honored with parades in various cities. On April 19, he gave a dramatic televised address before a joint session of Congress in which he criticized Truman’s Korean policy. The general ended with a quote from an old army song: Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. MacArthur and his wife took up residence in a suite at New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel