theirs is a war story that deserves to be told. from jerusalem, i'm oliver north. good night. tonight on war stories, reviled and revered, no middle ground when it came to this legendary military man. >> he said, gentlemen, i will be landing on the 15th of september or you will have a new commander. >> from those that worked with him -- >> i said relieved of your four commands. >> -- to those that loved him. >> always say that. the young ones. >> they're all part of the life and times of general douglas macarthur. that's next on "war stories." ♪

>> you are looking at the u.s. military academy at west point. this is the oldest continuous operated military point in united states. welcome to "war stories." some of the greatest leaders to command on the battlefield walked these grounds as cadets. generals grant and lee, eisenhower, patton and this man, general douglas macarthur. few solders yb more admired or controversial. he was a military prodigy and a highly decorated soldier of three veteran american worse. he inspired great devotion of his men and troubled relations with several presidents. and like a figure of a greek tragedy he fell from power. come with us on this special journey into the life of this altogether too human five-star hero. ♪ >> it would be crowds lined up sometimes three to four blocks

long. you'd just get a glimpse of this man. >> i do recall some comments, who does this guy think he is? >> they say i thought he was a little bit shy underneath. >> general macarthur has a superiority complex and i think it's because he is superior. >> had his first recollection of hearing a bugle blow. >> james is the archivist in norfolk, virginia. >> 96,000 photographs we have. contains all the radio messages from japan period as well as the world war ii records. >> it's here that the general public as well as historians who have written some 80 books on this one man experience the life and times of a legendary figure. some of it personal like love letters. >> sweet lady of mystery, i'm back again at the groaning desk. >> some of it historic like the most photographed hat in the world.

january 26th, 1880, he made the debut at the army barracks in little rock, arkansas. he's the youngest of three boys. his father, civil war hero, arthur macarthur ii. his mother mary known as pinky and his grandfather a prominent judge. douglas would have a lot to live up. >> his father is a 18-year-old boy colonel in the civil war. and in september of 1863 it's the battle of chick a manga driving through the lines. >> union troops were cut off and under siege from 46,000 confederates under general bragg. >> the army took up positions on missionary ridge overlooking chattanooga. >> as grant watched, arthur macarthur seized the initiative. >> drove his troops up the slopes. the flag was shot out. arthur picked up the colors and

planted them on the crest of missionary ridge. grant supposed to say who gave the order to do that? nobody spoke up. grant said if it turns out all right it will be all right. >> years later his father was awarded the medal of action for the action out missionary ridge. >> so the mother would always be in his ear you have to be like your father, you have to be like general lee and general grant. it was a constant striving to surpass what his father had done. >> by 1882, two thirds of the army was stationed west of the mississippi. buffalo bill's wild west show featuring annie oakley enthralls easterners, they were living the real thing, stationed in new mexico. >> always said it was the happiest time of his life. veterans would come visit the father. be going over the civil war dates. things that rang true in his ears. >> pinky longed for a better life for herself and her family.

one far from dusty army outposts. in 1883 all three boys came down with the measles and 5-year-old malcolm died. the devotion intensified. >> the contagion of a mama's boy is so much different now than back then. it is just complete undying devotion to each other, definitely. which she held until the end. >> when his father was assigned to fort sam houston in san antonio, douglas attended the west texas military academy. >> can never be second best. people said he was a little bit standoffish from everyone else but people also said at times he could be very friendly. >> in 1896, 16 years of age, macarthur applied to president cleveland for an appointment to west point. despite a barrage of recommendations including four governors and a former secretary of war, macarthur was turned down. his father suspected the switching from the democrat to the republican party in the civil war had earned him no favor with the democrat president.

>> there was never any doubt in his mind he was going to go to west point. >> i think his mother and father made sure that there wasn't any doubt in his mind. especially his mother. >> but the following year he was turned down again. this time by a republican president william mckinley. jeffrey is a u.s. army veteran and author of biography "old soldiers never die." >> if you take somebody who's pretty bright and put in the word and focused and disciplined way, they're gong to get to the top. >> february 1898, uss maine civics in the harbor under mysterious circumstances. while the politicians clamor for war, douglas macarthur scored a 93.3 on the west point admissions exam. it's the highest score. >> much of the academies particularly west point at the time were southerners. was there resentment because his dad had been such a successful army general? >> yes.

>> he was a target not only because his father was famous. the southerners represented maybe 40% of cadets. there were maybe four or five who wanted to continue fighting the civil war by picking on douglas macarthur. >> like many of his era, douglas macarthur endured painful hazing as a cadet.

perched on the banks of the hudson river, west point is as beautiful as it is austere. here, 19-year-old douglas macarthur joined the class of 1903. >> he was bright, focused and disciplined. >> pinky was right by her son's

side. she moved into this hotel overlooking the barracks. >> very dominant figure in his life? >> yes. but she did it not by being intimidating but worshipping her. the only reason douglas macarthur's mother was in the hotel, her husband was in the philippines, her eldest son was a naval officer and was at sea. and she didn't have a house. >> they would often see macarthur and his mother walking around the grounds at this time and stories of cadets with girls and not allowed and they would be in the hotel where mrs. macarthur would have them and playing lookout. >> when a young man reports for east barracks at west point, it was a rigorous time. >> they were subjected to everything from being forced to fight somebody who was bigger, strong eric and meaner than they were to being forced to do what

looked like physical exercise but was really a form of torture. >> was macarthur singled out because his dad was so well known? >> absolutely. for everybody who thinks you're an interesting person, there's somebody who hates your guts and is jealous as hell. >> douglas suffered convulsions after being ordered to perform 250 spread eagles over broken glass. he kept quiet about it until all hell broke loose when a man died. his family said he died when he was forced to drink a bottle of hot sauce. president mckinley ordered an investigation. >> tremendous congressional pressure. >> the president wanted names. and young douglas macarthur was ordered to testify. >> if he named the hazers he would be considered a stool pigeon and probably have to leave the academy because many of his classmates would never speak to him. >> he ultimately doesn't give up the names of all those he knows? >> no. he cleverly found a way of appearing to cooperate while

holding back on the main issue. so he spoke about other hazing incidents, but these were all people known, shall we say, to the authorities. >> macarthur flourished during the rest of his time at the long gray line and graduated first in his class. now a dashing second lieutenant at 23, he headed off to the philippines. his love affair with the far east had begun. in the following years he moved up fast in the army ranks, including a stent as an aide to teddy roosevelt. he was always often pulling strings, pulling letters from pinky. when his beloved father arthur died in 1912, douglas recalled

never have i been able to heal the wound in my heart. ♪ over there over there ♪ send the word send the word ♪ over there >> beginning of world war i, you have macarthur in the element as far as wanting to emulate his father. >> macarthur created the famed 46 ring division with national guard units from 26 different states and the district of columbia. when the division of 28,000 troops sailed to france that october of 1917, colonel douglas macarthur was its chief of staff. >> world war i was like the civil war, a full movement of men rather than machines. >> macarthur was a dashing man. >> macarthur did not look like anybody else. he wore an enormous scarf that his mother had knitted. it is about ten feet long and wore tailored uniforms and everybody else happy to take what the supply sergeant gave them. >> not everyone was enamored of macarthur's style, particularly john j. pershing.

>> pershing had an exasperating time with macarthur in world war i and often upgrade him about the divisions like, the way he dressed, you know, with the crushed cap and everything like that. >> describe his experience in combat in world war i. >> macarthur was to my mind one of the greatest combat soldiers the united states ever produced. he was not simply brave. he was very smart. he was a problem solver. >> october 1918. on a hill, american forces were slaughtered by german machine guns. >> the first infantry division was bled trying to take a small but very well defended hill, and that division had to be pulled out at the line. >> it was then up to macarthur to figure out a plan. >> macarthur saw how to solve the problem taking his hill and involved a nightly mission and

he was the only survivor and he saw one weakness in the german defenses. and the hill was taken. it was an absolutely brilliant feat of combat leadership. >> as scene in this film, e pershing awarded the brigadier general the distinguished service cross for his bravery. >> macarthur wasn't happy. he thought it's the only chance to get the medal of honor. something his father achieved in the civil war. pershing didn't feel it was right for generals to be given medal of honor to other generals. >> that winter, douglas recovered in germany in germany from exposure in poison gas and fell in love with his nurse. >> it happened between the two, macarthur deeply in love with this girl. coming back to the united states, he was depressed of having to leave her in germany. >> back from the war, the next assignment was to revitalize a

behind the times west point. >> try to change everything but the color of the uniforms. >> macarthur returned to west point as superintendent and turned this place on its head earning new friends and enemies. earning new friends and enemies. at 42 he took his first bride, a

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♪ and we won't come back 1919, the great war officially ended and brigadier general douglas mcarthur became the youngest superintendent of west point. he was 39 years old. >> does he make any changes in the way things worked? >> mcarthur felt that west point

was not just behind the times, it was at least a generation behind. >> did they resent what he was trying to do? >> there's some things, cadets and faculty must have found bewildering. he had the cadets writing poetry. he said, look, you've got to read a newspaper every day. he brought civilian instructors into the faculty. mcarthur loved innovation. >> now, in her 60s, pinky was living with douglas in the superintendent's quarters. >> his mother was a possessive mother. there's no getting around that. so no woman was ever going to be quite good enough for douglas. >> luis louise was one of the richest women in america. louise goes to football game at

west point and meets douglas macarthur. >> louise was a vivacious, 31-year-old american heiress whose industrial stepfather was worts worth more than $150 million. though she was a divorced mother of two, macarthur was clearly smitten. >> a voluminous set of cards. >> did mom interfere at all in the day-to-day relationship? resented it? >> strongly. >> and there was other interference from general blackjack persing. during world war i, louise was his hostess in paris. >> they were both interested in the same woman. macarthur married louise brooks who pershing had intended to marry off to one of his favorite aides. and macarthur came along and ruined that relationship. >> he would lose one year off the tenure of superintendent at west point. they were definitely exiled to the philippines.

>> and the whole army knew macarthur's been fired. macarthur's being taken down not just one peg but half a dozen pegs. >> that september of 1922, the one-star general commanded a post unworthy of his rank, yet dear to his heart, the military district of manila. >> less than a month after getting there, douglas gets a wire. mother is sick. she's near death. come home. macarthur immediately packs them all up again. >> pinky recovered. in 1923, douglas' surviving brother, arthur, a navy captain died of a burst appendix. their marriage was collapsing. >> she always tried to get him out of the army. louise also like the mother had a lot of personal pull, used her father's connections, as well. got to the point where he saw grabbing the wealth as just a very sickening thing. >> but macarthur's biggest on stackable was gone. general pershing retired.

wearing four stars, he became army chief of staff in 1930. during those last heady days of the jazz age, the macarthur marriage ended. >> louise wanted to go back to being a flapper girl, wants to be among society. macarthur wants no part of it. >> he pored himself in work and built his own war department famine colluding a major, dwight eisenhower. he also fell in love again. >> when he first started dating her, she was 16. isabel cooper was a young filipino he had met in the philippines during his period right before chief of staff. he's living with his mother at fort meyer who would just be aghast at the fact that not only

does he have a mistress but she's a filipino. >> macarthur was happy personally, it was not a god time to be a professional soldier. in the midst of the depression, president hoover slashed spending and salaries until the army was the 17th largest in the world. by 1932, unemployment stood at more than 20%. especially hard hit? the veterans of world war i who were promised $1,000 and were demanding early pay. they and other homeless people camped out by the thousands in washington. >> macarthur's role becomes controversial because they drive them out of washington. >> they did, indeed. >> macarthur to some degree was the victim of george van horne mosley, the assistant chief of staff. herbert hoover knew that it would be a terrible mistake to have the army go across the river and into the main camp. and he had an odd sense to macarthur telling him, do not cross the bridge. do not have your troops go into that camp.

and george van horne mosley made sure that the order did not reach macarthur. >> what was the motive? >> he felt that the bonus marchers were ravel and should be driven out of washington with the bayonet. people believe that the army burned down the camp. it didn't. it was the washington police who burned down the camp. >> is macarthur subject to any official reprimand as a consequence? >> no. his very able aide dwight d. eisenhower produced an official report that completely exonerated the army. >> when the japanese attacked building a website in under an hour is easy with gocentral... ...from godaddy! in fact, 68% of people who have built their... ...website using gocentral, did it in under an hour, and you can too. build a better website - in under an hour. with gocentral from godaddy. again and again.

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franklin 55-year-old douglas macarthur led the inaugural parade welcoming franklin dell know roosevelt in 1954. rumors were ram management he would fire macarthur as army chief of staff. after the bonus march disaster, first lady and the press viewed macarthur with suspicion. and things didn't improve when he sued columnist drew pearson for libel to the tune of $1.75 million. >> and at that time, they became apparent in pearson. they retrieved a bunch of letters of macarthur to her and said either drop the suit or we're going to countersue and put her on the stand. >> macarthur paid the former teenage mistress $15,000 not to take the stand. the public was fascinated with the very colorful general. what fdr really needed was to help put america to work. >> macarthur definitely thought of roosevelt as an intellectual

equal. >> less than two months, macarthur mobilizes 275,000 citizens from 47 states. they were put to work in a civilian conservation corps. but inside the army, morale was dwindling. macarthur was furious when the congress cut a salary to $17.85 a month and only 16,000 soldiers stood combat ready. throughout the '30s, emperor hirohito were bent on building a force in the pacific. douglas' own friend knew his fledgling nation was a target. in 1935 the now four-star general needed a new job. his term as chief of staff was over. >> macarthur was hired to oversee the creation of a philippine defense force. >> is he still on active duty as an army general? >> he goes onto the retired list, but he's being paid by the government of the philippines and roosevelt knew what

macarthur was getting. >> douglas and his mother, a frail 82-year-old pinky, sailed to the philippines in the fall. on the long voyage, macarthur met a petite woman from murfreesboro, tennessee. >> i could never forget the general sitting there. that's the first time i ever laid eyes on him. >> you are listening to the voice of jean macarthur when she was interviewed by a close friend and former director of the macarthur memorial library and archive. jean as a young girl was very independent. she made several round the world trips. >> i find a lovely basket of flowers and it's from general macarthur to me. >> pinky fell ill and happiness had to wait. >> the general's mother died. a few weeks after we got there, the general went into mourning and he just didn't sep any invitations at all.

>> with jean's help, he slowly began to return to his old self. >> he depended on me. he was sort of sending everything to me anyway. >> she was the one he could sound things out on. >> macarthur spent his days working with his chief of staff, dwight eisenhower. and in the beautiful manila hotel, jean grew especially close to eisenhower's wife mamie. >> we were in the penthouse. ike and mamie were a couple of floors below us. i'd go down to mamie's apartment and we would talk for hours. >> one day, macarthur had an aide escort jean to his office. >> that's when he asked if i would marry. >> nearly everyone was surprised when they married in new york on april 30th, 1837. >> i was sorry about that picture. >> eight months after marrying jean, he fully retired from the u.s. army. he was now a strict military advisor to the philippines. macarthur became a father for the first time at age 58 when arthur iv was born in february 1938. >> people would say, i didn't think you had it in you.

and he said actually i didn't think i had it in me either. >> july 1941, as the japanese moved to striking distance of the philippines, fdr called macarthur back into service. naming him commander of all forces in the far east. douglas referred to it as his destiny. >> about 3:00 in the morning, and i can remember him getting up. >> when pearl harbor was attacked, macarthur ordered reconnaissance flights in the philippines. >> after more than three hours in the air, the american planes have made no contact with the japanese. >> the japanese had faked us out. when everything went back down, that's when they came back in. >> nearly all the b-17 bombers were on the ground along with the fighters. following the attacks, washington looked for scapegoats. commander of the pacific fleet husband band kimmel was fired and replaced by admiral chester williams.

>> why isn't macarthur fired for everything happening in the philippines? >> it would have been too expensive politically. if roosevelt could have done it, he would have done it. >> macarthur makes an assessment that the philippines ultimately cannot be helped. >> even knew that the philippines could not be helped. >> i remember the number. he can't hold manila any longer. we went on christmas eve an i remember poor macarthur. he said, i think i've seen enough. >> the noose was tightening, but macarthur rallied his troops. >> 15th of january. it started out you men are to hold out because thousands of men and hundreds of airplanes are on the way. >> i said i'd hate to be responsible for the men's lives. he said, jean, you do everything you can possible to make it work.

>> by march of '42, the japanese juggernaut overwhelmed the exhausted and underarmed and underfed american and filipino troops. >> the flies are reaching the zero point. >> 26,000, another 78,000 on the peninsula. >> ordered by roosevelt. >> a reluctant macarthur ordered to the safety of australia. >> macarthur wanted to die in the tunnel with a gun in his hand and face to his enemy. >> we went down and got on the p.t. boat. i just remember his face looking back and heartbroken. >> the president caisson left and he settled the debts with macarthur. >> there's a payment made just before the philippines collapse that causes great controversy. >> yes. but you see, macarthur had what amounted to a ten-year contract. and the president says in effect, look, it is not your fault and he paid macarthur for the whole ten years. >> $500,000. >> like $5 million now. >> when the general realized he

had to go, he sent wanewright and they had a conference. >> what they decided is that general wainwright would be in charge of the philippines. macarthur assured him he'd come back as soon as i can with as much as i can. >> macarthur has come! before him is a vast job of reconquest. >> we definitely had a downbeat macarthur who felt like he had been betrayed by washington. >> put up for the defense of honor. was there resentment over that? >> eisenhower said it should not be given to somebody for staying in a tunnel. >> finally fell on april 9th and wainwright surrendered may 6th. general wainwright suffers grievously for four years as a prisoner of war. when he's released, there's a very emotional embrace between he and macarthur, and yet macarthur objected to wainwright getting the medal of honor.

>> he did because wainwright had not handled the defense very well. the way macarthur would have done it, if he died then he should have got the medal of honor. >> it would be more than two and a half years of brutal fighting in the pacific. frank was part of the 33rd infantry regimen. >> it was a part of genius because the strategy was superb. get behind the enemy and let the enemy die on the vine. >> finally in october of '44 during the battle of late day, macarthur made a triumphant return and his enemies used the occasion to spread a vicious rumor. >> widely believed that macarthur did several takes of walking ashore. true or false? >> absolutely false. he went ashore once. >> you're watching "war stories" on the fox news channel. stay tuned.

the final blows that brought japan to her knees delivered over three days in august 1945. >> how does macarthur end up with the detail of what happens on the deck of the missouri? >> the navy felt indeed that we have done most of the fighting out here and nimitz should take the surrender. the navy and marines always claim that the army brings rank. and so, macarthur has the rank to do it. >> was there any discussion in washington over the propriety of that? >> i think maybe a little gnashing of teeth in the white house. truman did not like showing army officers. >> i now invite the representatives of the emperor of japan to sign the instrument of surrender. >> september 2nd, nine-member japanese delegation watched in stony silence and two newly freed prisoners of war stepped forward.

>> will general wainwright and general percival step forward and accompany me while i sign? >> macarthur gave them signing pens. it was an emotional moment for the now five-star general. >> he was 66 and i was 63. i thought if he could do it, i could do it. >> he went to work for the supreme commander. >> he had no in basket or out basket. essentially i was the in basket and the out basket. >> the first assignment for the occupation troops -- disarm the enemy. and they blew up more than 1.5 million tons of ammunition. >> i think we accomplished that pretty well the first 60 days. you would get the staff together. they were going to be very kind to the people. and that's the orders from here. >> but there were also war

criminals to prosecute. >> tojo with the shining bald head. >> despite the atrocities, only 28 class-a war criminals stood trial. >> allows the emperor to remain in. >> yes. you cannot run a prison without the cooperation of the prisoners. you cannot run an occupied country without the cooperation of the people that live there. >> we had to research the emperor, likes, dislikes. emperor liked to smoke cigarettes. macarthur offered him a cigarette. the emperor took it and he said, general, i want you to know that i, the emperor, am responsible for everything that occurred in the war. >> macarthur was worshipped by the japanese people. >> another west point graduate alexander hague, remembered prime minister yoshida to the general. >> he'd come out of macarthur's office bowing deeply. with tears in his eyes. because he just couldn't

comprehend a political system that was anything comparable to the democratic way. when you have to take a country from feudalism, emperor worship, to democracy, you've got some real challenges. >> if he didn't like you, you were out. >> george herman was a correspondent for cbs news covering the far east. >> we let it known be early on they were his ideas. i am the boss. not america. not harry truman, god forbid. >> korea becoming a scene of a new communist crime against humanity. >> so this message had been given directly to john macarthur. >> then a 27-year-old warrant officer was a long way from kansas when he became macarthur's chief administrative officer.

>> the next thing i nurks general churchill was on his way to korea, and that's when we started to move forces into korea. >> general church was on the way to korea and that's when we started to move forces into korea. >> how many troops were in japan that were available to go immediately to korea? >> well, we had four divisions. we had the 24th, the 25th, 1st cavalry division and the air born division all under strength and fully trained. >> without support of washington, macarthur conceived a daring plan to land marines. >> truman in august dispatched the jcs to tell macarthur that he could not execute the invasion. and i sat outside the door with it cracked just a slight bit. the first response from lawton collins saying it was a cockamamy plan. >> in front of macarthur. >> to macarthur. he said, gentlemen, i will be landing on the 15th of september or you will have a new commander. put his pipe in the ashtray and walked out of the room. they all collapsed.

>> successful landing of 70,000 troops vindicated macarthur as a genius. relations with president truman deteriorated. >> before the meeting took place, general macarthur had the engineers at wake island construct the walls so that on one side you could hear, the other side you couldn't. truman's staff couldn't hear a thing. >> he always was excessively complacent that the chinese were not going to enter the war. >> macarthur was wrong. by late november 1950, 300,000 communist chinese troops were in north korea and u.n. forces were in retreat. macarthur blamed faulty intelligence. the president blamed him. april 10th, 1951, macarthur was the last to find out he'd been fired. >> mrs. macarthur called me and she said, lieutenant, are you

listening to the news? i said, yes, ma'am. she said, well, you must have a message on your desk. i said, no, ma'am. i do not. about the 14th machine message in the clear and i went into his office and he said, what did the message say? i said, general, the best i recall, you are immediately relieved, ridgeway is your successor. you are relieved of the forward commands. he put his hand on my shoulder and said, son, you will learn to and said, son, you will learn to sep changes like this. ♪imagine no possessions ♪i wonder if you can ♪no need for greed or hunger

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less than 24 hours after being fired, douglas and jean macarthur returned to the states. 84,000 letters and telegrams poured into the white house. in coast to coast parades, he received a hero's welcome. >> he came, he saw, he conquered. >> macarthur gave a much anticipated address to congress, and he ended it with a surprise. >> those soldiers never die. they just fade away. >> a lot of people were looking to him to come back and not only denounce the truman administration's ideas of what to do but to give his own ideas of what should be done. >> the macarthurs settled in new york city. home was one of the city's most opulent hotels, the waldorf

towers. "war stories" was given a private tour. >> the largest parlor, waldorf, and the general would love to pace and he had a lot of space to pace. >> at 71 chairman of the board of remington corporation. charles stauffer was macarthur's driver for 11 years. >> he very seldom went out. he liked west point and the army football games. once in a great while he would go to the theater. >> may 1962, his health slowly failing, macarthur made the final visit to west point and perhaps his most famous speech. >> i bid you farewell. >> all these cadets in here, you can hear a pin drop. a lot of tears in their eyes

including myself. >> he never wavered in the c convictio conviction. soldiers were fighting men. up to the very end, the president still sought his advice. >> johnson comes to visit at walter reed hospital in the final days and macarthur tells johnson, don't get involved a land war in asia. you'll get gobbled up. >> there's a great staunch general, almost every medal to get in the world, and, gee, here he's shrinking away and dying a with jean and his son at the bedside. he died april 5th, 1964. >> went to the armory and the body laid and then moved to the rotunda in washington. >> jean would remain in the public eye active in various charities and 1988 president ronald reagan awarded her the presidential medal of freedom and the devotion of her only child arthur never faltered. >> he would have dinner with her every single day until she passed on at 101. >> having outlived her husband by almost 36 years, jean macarthur is buried in virginia

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if peace is a if peace is a time when one waits for war and war is a time to wait for peace, this's the t way it was at 52-year-long military career of douglas macarthur. he was a warrior's warrior. and though he had been accused of being a warmonger, he said nothing could be further from the truth. he said i know war few as other men know it and nothing is more revolts but once there's no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory. from the u.s. military academy at west point, his is a war story that deserves to be told.

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