Truman Doctrine
More clearly than any earlier act, the Truman Doctrine proclaimed that the United States had embarked on a new foreign policy. This new policy of containment would have profound effect...
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March 12, 1947, before a joint session of Congress, President Harry S. Truman forever changed the foreign policy of the United States. Truman's innovative doctrine was the forward momentum that amend...
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Today is Monday, March 12, the 71st day of 2007. There are 294 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 12, 1933, President Roosevelt delivered the first of his radio "fireside c...
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Today is Tuesday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2007. There are 223 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred years ago, on May 22, 1907, actor-director Laurence Olivier was born in...
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The power of the presidency, Harry Truman once said, is the power to persuade. That maxim applies to governors and mayors as well. In a democracy, chief executives can’t simply rule by fiat. ...
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In this pungent and partisan book, John Lewis Gaddis, a professor of history at Yale University, comes not only to bury the Cold War but to praise it—as a conflict freighted with fear that &#...
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In this pungent and partisan book, John Lewis Gaddis, a professor of history at Yale University, comes not only to bury the Cold War but to praise it—as a conflict freighted with fear that &#...
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Text of President Bush's news conference on Wednesday, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.BUSH: Good morning.We're now more than halfway through October, and the new leaders in Congress have had m...
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Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine
Today in history - March 12
