Word: truman
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Starting Over. Ever since, Mann has been close to Latin American affairs. In 1947, he let Spruille Braden, then Harry Truman's Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs, talk him into joining the U.S. foreign service at a 40% pay cut-from the $11,000 he got in his special State Department civilian rank to $7,000 as a regular foreign service officer. "I started all over again as a second secretary at the embassy in Caracas," recalls Mann. He turned in a fine job, was recalled to Washington and in 1950 was made a deputy assistant...
...staff to work investigating Communist infiltration in the U.S., collected reams of writings on Communism, encouraged George Kennan, chargé d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, to write his celebrated "Mr. X" article, which laid the basis for the policy of containment. In 1946 Forrestal persuaded Truman to send warships to the eastern Mediterranean in a show of strength, thus paving the way for U.S. aid to Greece and Turkey. By 1947 Forrestal-with the help of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe-had converted the Cabinet to a militant anti-Communist stand. But it had not been...
After the war, the battle over unification of the armed forces was joined and Forrestal jumped right in. President Truman and the Secretary of War were in favor of a strong defense chief; Forrestal was not. He felt the defense establishment was too big to be bossed by any one man; at most, the Defense Secretary should "coordinate." Eventually, Forrestal wore his opposition down, and the 1947 bill creating the Defense Department was largely his. Ironically, Forrestal was appointed to the job he considered too big. "This office will probably be the greatest cemetery for dead cats in history...
...running for President," he said, deadpan, to an Amherst group. "If you've listened to President Johnson's State of the Union address, I think you'll understand why." Johnson, he charged, had "out-Roosevelted Roosevelt, out-Kennedyed Kennedy, and even made Harry Truman look like some kind of a piker." Far from having a conservative bent, he said, Johnson "has outliberaled every liberal since...
Deftly fusing the activities of Barry Goldwater with the street-corner remarks of Harry Truman, the program delivered this deathless lyric...