where did douglas macarthur die?
Washington, D.C.
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 After his recovery , MacArthur methodically began to carry out the closing acts of his life . He visited the White House for a final reunion with Eisenhower . In 1961 , he made a " sentimental journey " to the Philippines , where he was decorated by President Carlos P. Garcia with the Philippine Legion of Honor . MacArthur also accepted a $ 900 @,@ 000 ( equivalent to $ 7 @.@ 25 million in 2016 ) advance from Henry Luce for the rights to his memoirs , and wrote the volume that would eventually be published as Reminiscences . Sections began to appear in serialized form in Life magazine in the months before his death . 

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 Douglas and Jean MacArthur spent their last years together in the penthouse of the Waldorf Towers , a part of the Waldorf @-@ Astoria Hotel . He was elected Chairman of the Board of Remington Rand . In that year , he earned a salary of $ 68 @,@ 000 ( equivalent to $ 612 @,@ 000 in 2016 ) , in addition to $ 20 @,@ 000 pay and allowances as a General of the Army . The Waldorf became the setting for an annual birthday party on 26 January thrown by the general 's former deputy chief engineer , Major General Leif J. Sverdrup . At the 1960 celebration for MacArthur 's 80th birthday , many of his friends were startled by the general 's obviously deteriorating health . The next day , he collapsed and was rushed into surgery at St. Luke 's Hospital to control a severely swollen prostate . 

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 MacArthur was accompanied by his family : his wife Jean , four @-@ year @-@ old son Arthur , and Arthur 's Cantonese amah , Ah Cheu . MacArthur later defended his decision to take her instead of an American nurse . " Few people outside the Orient " , he wrote , " know how completely a member of the family an amah can become , and Ah Cheu had been with us since Arthur 's birth . Because of her relationship to my family , her death would have been certain had she been left behind . " 

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 MacArthur was accompanied by his family : his wife Jean , four @-@ year @-@ old son Arthur , and Arthur 's Cantonese amah , Ah Cheu . MacArthur later defended his decision to take her instead of an American nurse . " Few people outside the Orient " , he wrote , " know how completely a member of the family an amah can become , and Ah Cheu had been with us since Arthur 's birth . Because of her relationship to my family , her death would have been certain had she been left behind . " 

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 By March 1942 , the Japanese invasion of the Philippines had compelled MacArthur to withdraw his forces on Luzon to Bataan , while his headquarters and his family moved to Corregidor . The doomed defense of Bataan captured the imagination of the American public . At a time when the news from all fronts was uniformly bad , MacArthur became a living symbol of Allied resistance to the Japanese . 
