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Milwaukee-born George F. Kennan, who literally wrote America's Cold War containment policy in the 1940s and then drafted the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II, died Thursday evening at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 101 years old.
Kennan, a diplomat, philosopher and historian with two Pulitzer Prizes to his credit, served as ambassador to the USSR in the 1950s and Yugoslavia in the 1960s and was generally credited at the midpoint of the 20th century with knowing more about Soviet government and strategy than anyone else in the United States and probably more than most in the Kremlin.
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Americans should be angry. They should be angry with President Bush. They should be angry with Sen. John Kerry. They should be angry with Congress. And they should vent their anger on both political parties. Then that anger must be channeled into useful action.
We are now in the third year of the global war on terror. Where do we stand? Are we winning, losing or about even? Three years into the Cold War, we had created NATO and the Marshall Plan. Three years after Pearl Harbor, World War II was almost over. Victory would come in Europe five months later and in nine months in the Pacific. Does any one think the war on terror will be over in five months, let alone five years? If not, why not?
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... constituted America's first steps in the Cold War: the Marshall Plan, NATO, the Truman Doctrine....
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For Cold Warriors, foreign-policy wonks and history buffs: ... Cold War, but played a major role in the Marshall Plan's post-World War II rebuilding of Europe, won...
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Surely they were two of the more acerbic-tongued men ever to grace American public life - President Harry S. Truman and his secretary of state, Dean Acheson. Forget that they were an unlikely pair: Truman, a small-town Missouri boy and a failed haberdasher whose formal education had ended at high school; Acheson, a to-the- manor-born son of an Episcopal bishop, educated at Groton and Yale, a Washington superlawyer before and after public service.
But they shepherded America during the frosty start of the Cold War, and successfully. Their leadership put the brakes on attempted Soviet expansion through such programs as the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt war-torn Europe, and the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which discouraged military aggression by the Soviet Army.
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Upon leaving public service in 1950, Clifford became one of Washington's most successful and wealthiest lawyers and influence peddlers who enjoyed four decades of unparalleled respect and adulation from Democratic presidents and party leaders, official Washington, and the press. [...] Acacia concludes that Clifford's contributions were real and significant, but perhaps not to the extent that Clifford would have you believe.
... others played a major role in shaping early Cold War policy, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan...
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... the "vastness" of our national security plan in an ultimately bipartisan manner. . Berman urges... ideology--a fundamental tool during the cold war. Nothing has been done to re-establish the age...He cites the Marshall Plan after the Second World War, when Foreign Aid ...