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- Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan…
- Nixon did not anticipate the extent to which Kissinger, whom he barely knew when he appointed him national-security adviser in 1969, would be envious and…
- For those of us who cry out for gun control, our fears cannot be eliminated as long as the country remains an armed camp in…
- Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To combat communism, to…
- During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman an…
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