Statement by the President on the Invitation to General MacArthur To Address a Joint Session of Congress.
April 13, 1951
I AM happy to learn from Speaker Rayburn that Congress is planning to invite General MacArthur to address the Members of both Houses. I regard it as fitting that Congress bestow this honor on one of our great military men.
Harry S Truman, Statement by the President on the Invitation to General MacArthur To Address a Joint Session of Congress. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/230395