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Today what seems more striking than the almost quaint idealism and the bombastic style (forgive me, Harry) is the degree to which, shorn of rhetoric, the essay proved to be a realistic program, anticipating the Marshall Plan, Truman's Point Four call for American technical assistance abroad, the Kennedy Peace Corps, Food for Peace. America as a powerhouse of democratic ideals, as the champion of freedom and the source of material sustenance and technical expertise -- all animated U.S. foreign policy the past half-century...
Unfortunately, Stalin was not always so sensible. Some time later, during another meeting with Gottwald, Stalin asked if the Soviet Union should move its troops into Czechoslovakia. The reason could have been simply that the cold war was gaining momentum. Truman was President, and Stalin feared war with America...
...Cheney fired the highly decorated Air Force chief, General Michael Dugan, for "poor judgment at a sensitive time" in speaking indiscreetly on secret and diplomatically touchy issues relating to the gulf crisis. Dugan was the first member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to be dismissed since President Harry Truman in 1949 sacked Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Louis Denfeld and the first military commander to be dismissed since Truman ousted General Douglas MacArthur...
Andy would be having a fit, just beside himself. Who does Bob Colacello think he is, writing about Bianca and Liz and Truman and Yoko, as if they would have given him the time of day if he weren't working at the Factory? Sure, Jackie O. was polite that time Andy took Colacello along as his date to a Christmas party, even shared her glass of Perrier. But she didn't mean it, calling Andy the next day to complain about his bringing a gossip columnist to real people's parties. Really. At least this time he didn...
...detail the comings and goings (a lot of time is spent in cabs) of long-forgotten and always boring celebrities like Viva, Baby Jane Holzer and Jerry Hall. Warholian scholars, if there is such a category, might want to read this book to decide once and for all whether Truman Capote liked Bob better than Andy. Others should be warned: the only thing worse than reading about the Velvet Underground's evenings at clubs is to have been there. Drugs and drink were in large supply; wit and conversation were...