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...swift Western response to the Berlin blockade reflected postwar thinking about how to manage the Soviets. Writing in Foreign Affairs under the pen name "X" in 1947, George Kennan, then head of the State Department's policy planning staff, argued that the West should "contain" the U.S.S.R. by countering Soviet pressure at crisis spots around the globe. But Kennan later denied paternity of any "containment" strategy. It was President Harry Truman who made it the cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. In requesting $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey, which were threatened by Communist expansion...
...likewise interested in preventing reform in the area. More important, since World War II members of the social and military upper classes have been willing to carry out Washington's top priority: the prevention and eradication of Communism in the hemisphere. LaFeber quotes a 1950 memorandum by George Kennan on U.S. policy in Central America...
...Reno, NV 20 Rager Javens WB 6-1 185 Sr. Beaver Falls, PA 20 Tom Jurewicz WB 5-10 205 Sr. Eagan, MN 32 Kevin Kalinich BE 6-3 190 Se. Glen Ellyn, IL 95 Derek Kay BE 6-2 196 Se. Pale Alte, CA 81 Bob Kennan DE 6-1 200 Jr. Hills Dale, NJ 35 Dave Kokackle TB 6-2 100 Se. Farge, ND 90 Don Kokackle DE 4-2 215 Se. Ceveland, OH 92 Kanre Kolstad DT 6-4 246 Jr. Northford, CT 2 Tim Kotkiewles DB 5-11 175 Se. Allison Park, PA 31 Rick Kolstad...
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Edward L. Kennan '57 said that he was planning to donate early next week adding. "I hope others will do the same--he needs donors. I urge his colleagues, his friends, and members of the community to give him white blood cells...
...element of the "flexible response" strategy, which he helped to design, and which was adopted as official NATO policy in 1967. In a Foreign Affairs article last year, McNamara and three other former architects of U.S. foreign policy (McGeorge Bundy, National Security Adviser to Kennedy and Johnson; George F. Kennan, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union; Gerard Smith, the chief negotiator of SALT I) stirred wide controversy in Europe by arguing that the concept of "first use" was antiquated and dangerous...