While Chief of Staff, MacArthur was called before a Congressional Committee to make a report. It is the intolerant practice of some congressmen and senators to throw monkey-wrenches into the wheels of progress in an attempt to make themselves important in the eyes of their constituents back home. Instead of constructively trying to get at the essential means for meeting problems, they bulldoze and insult with impunity….
Some of these alleged statesmen started to ride him. MacArthur got up very slowly, with much dignity, put his papers away, and looked them squarely in the eyes.
“Gentlemen,” he said, “you have insulted me. I, in my profession, am as high as you in your profession. When you are ready to apologize, I shall return.” And he walked out….
Francis Trevelyan Miller, General Douglas MacArthur Rev. Ed. (Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1945), 122.
Short Stories on Honor, Chivalry, and the World of Nobility—no. 322
