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that MacArthur should command the final assault on Japan. The Atomic Bomb later made the final assault unnecessary. Almost every officer who worked with MacArthur—except those on his personal staff—found him an overbearing egomaniac who was militarily capable, but nowhere near as capable as he saw himself. In success he rarely shared the limelight with anyone else, but would rarely take the blame when things were not as successful as all had hoped. Stimson and President Roosevelt had decided that MacArthur should lead the invasion on Japan, and discovered all this hostility amongst MacArthur’s colleagues. It was much easier to place MacArthur in charge of Post War Japan where he would not work that closely with so many senior officers throughout the services. He did a brilliant job governing Japan but still alienated other senior officers. MacArthur was so egotistical that he thought that he could run the country far better than FDR and in 1944 thought of running against the President.