“Connor, the new superintendent. After MacArthur refused to release him, Connor declined to give up, and in January 1937 again requested Eisenhower. MacArthur again adamantly refused, citing Eisenhower’s duties “of the gravest importance. He could not adequately be replaced.”26 It was Eisenhower’s only chance to have escaped MacArthur and the Philippines, but he would not have accepted the post if given the choice. As much as he had enjoyed his West Point experience, he had no interest in duty there, recalling that in his time, “the Commandant was merely the head of the ‘skinning’ department. … I had no ambition to get into that kind of business.”27 If Eisenhower had any regrets, they were never publicly articulated, other than a”