Editing Douglas MacArthur (section)

====New Deal====
[[File:Civilian Conservation Corps - NARA - 195832.jpg|thumb|right|Civilian Conservation Corps workers on a project alongside a road|alt=Five workmen. One is holding a shovel, while the other four are laying bricks to form a drainage ditch along the side of a road.]]
In the [[1932 United States presidential election|1932 presidential election]], Herbert Hoover was defeated by [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. MacArthur and Roosevelt had worked together before World War I and had remained friends despite their political differences. MacArthur supported the [[New Deal]] through the Army's operation of the [[Civilian Conservation Corps]]. He ensured that detailed plans were drawn up for its employment and decentralized its administration to the corps areas, which became an important factor in the program's success.{{sfn|James|1970|pp=415–420}} MacArthur's support for a strong military, and his public criticism of pacifism and isolationism,{{sfn|James|1970|pp=376–377}} made him unpopular with the Roosevelt administration.{{sfn|James|1970|pp=445–447}}

Perhaps the most incendiary exchange between Roosevelt and MacArthur occurred over an administration proposal to cut 51% of the Army's budget. In response, MacArthur lectured Roosevelt that "when we lost the next war, and an American boy, lying in the mud with an enemy bayonet through his belly and an enemy foot on his dying throat, spat out his last curse, I wanted the name not to be MacArthur, but Roosevelt". In response, Roosevelt yelled, "you must not talk that way to the President!" MacArthur offered to resign, but Roosevelt refused his request, and MacArthur then staggered out of the White House and vomited on the front steps.{{sfn|MacArthur|1964|p=101}}

In spite of such exchanges, MacArthur was extended an extra year as chief of staff, and ended his tour in October 1935.{{sfn|James|1970|pp=445–447}} For his service as chief of staff, he was awarded a second Distinguished Service Medal. He was retroactively awarded two Purple Hearts for his World War I service,{{sfn|MacArthur|1964|pp=102–103}} a decoration that he authorized in 1932 based loosely on the defunct Military Badge of Merit. MacArthur insisted on being the first recipient of the Purple Heart, which he had engraved with "#1".{{sfn|Vierk|2005|p=231}}{{sfn|Thompson|2006|p=72}}