Word: truman
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Three Harvard sophomores was Truman Scholarships for their commitment to public service, the Harry 8 Truman Scholarship Foundation announced last week...
...patch together agreements between the State Department and the Pentagon only with the greatest difficulty. This bureaucratic battling has produced little that seems likely to interest the Kremlin, which wants to do nothing that might politically help the man whom one Soviet commentator called "the worst U.S. President since Truman." The prospects for significant progress in the superpowers' relations for the remainder of this year have rarely appeared dimmer. Said one top Reagan aide of the chances for a thaw: "I think under any scenario we're talking about next year...
Hart and Mondale come out of opposing foreign policy schools within the Democratic Party. Mondale was shaped by the cold war, as first waged by Harry Truman (whose 1947 Truman Doctrine sweepingly extended U.S. protection to "free peoples" everywhere) and later taught by Mondale's mentor, Hubert Humphrey. The enemy was global Communism, which had to be contained by the threat or use of force from Europe to Korea. Under President Jimmy Carter, Mondale joined in a foreign policy that stressed human rights over anti-Communist ideology. The former Vice President says he is now a "mature internationalist...
Hart can justly claim new ideas for these tunes, particularly on defense matters, but as Truman's comment suggests, most of them were thought up long ago by others. None is as hoary as Hart's belief that U.S. land forces must learn maneuver warfare, a concept rooted in the thought of Sun Zi 2,000 years ago. The Chinese warrior wrote that successful offensives should be like streams rushing down mountains, seeking the paths of least resistance, flowing around obstacles instead of trying to go through or over them. Hart has consulted the fusty volumes of strategists...
...since another Secretary of State, James Byrnes, assailed Harry Truman's foreign policy in 1947 in his memoir Speaking Frankly has a senior Cabinet member published such an attack on a sitting Administration. Haig gives little aid and comfort to Democrats on substance. His view of the world is a hard-liner's, his disagreement with the Administration largely concerns tactics and the policy-making process. But Caveat will certainly add fuel to the campaign debate over foreign policy...