President Truman's relief of General Douglas MacArthur with MacArthur than with Bradley or Marshall. Truman's approval rating fell to 23 percent in mid-1951, which was lower than Richard Nixon's low of 25 percent during the Watergate Scandal in 1974, and Lyndon Johnson's of 28 percent at the height of the Vietnam War in 1968. , it remains the lowest Gallup Poll approval rating recorded by any serving president. The increasingly unpopular war in Korea dragged on, and the Truman administration was beset with a series of corruption scandals. He eventually decided not to run for re-election. Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic candidate in the 1952 presidential election, attempted
The President Vanishes against playing the role. Produced by Walter Wanger and directed by William Wellman, "The President Vanishes" began filming in Hollywood September 10, 1934. The film is described in John Douglas Eames' "The Paramount Story": Andre Sennwald reviewed the film for "The New York Times": "The President Vanishes" was adapted for the screen by Lynn Starling, Carey Wilson and Cedric Worth, with uncredited contributions by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. "Forty-two years later, paired in a revival with Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men", it could still stir audiences," wrote John McAleer. "For the initiated the film supplied a hint