You know you're kind of a big deal when one of your job duties is to literally oversee the surrender of Japan and, basically, the end of World War II.

And General Douglas MacArthur was kind of a big deal.

This speech was tuned into radios all over America, delivered while the ink on Japan's surrender paperwork was still drying. In it, MacArthur talks about how awesome it is that the war is over and pontificates about the future of Japan and the world as a whole.

It's big, it's bold, it's brief, and it's a nice little window into the brain of one of the United States' most celebrated military servicemen.

Sounds like FDR knew what he was doing when he picked this guy to run the Japanese Reformation Show.