former director of the macarthur memorial library and archive. jeanpendent. 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 so