In this episode, Klinger is able trade Lebanese salami for a copy of Life magazine. In the magazine there is a pictorial on the Shores of Maine. The magazine is the August 4, 1952 issue. On the cover is Adlai Stevenson
BJ says that "MacArthur makes the blood run on time". This is a restatement of a common description of Mussolini who, despite his other flaws in leadership, "made the trains run on time".
The title comes from the expression "where there's a will, there's a way."