Word: kennan
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...Kennan is survived by his wife, four children, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren...
...Kennan achieved prominence with the circulation of the “Long Telegram” of 1946 and the 1947 publication of the “X Article” in Foreign Affairs Magazine. In both, Kennan argued his view of the Soviet Union as an aggressive and imperialist state that the U.S. must resist despite their recent alliance...
...after an impolitic comparison of Stalinist Russia to Nazi Germany, Kennan retired from the government and joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where over the course of the next 50 years he published books devoted to twentieth-century diplomatic history. Two of them—“Russia Leaves the War” (1956) and “Memoirs: 1925-1950” (1967)—won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize...
...recalled seeing Kennan in 1989 at a Christmas party hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations. “I remember telling my children I wanted them to go hear him at the Council. This is the man who wrote the script for foreign policy. He had an extraordinary presence, even for children...
Maier agreed that Kennan had a tremendous impact on foreign policy, but added that while Kennan is often regarded as a warrior for democracy against Soviet totalitarianism he was somewhat uneasy with the democratic process...