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...March 1983 Ronald Reagan described the Soviet Union as "the focus of evil in the modern world." Harsh words, but no harsher than what Nitze said in 1950 in a report to Harry Truman called National Security Council Directive No. 68, one of the seminal documents of the cold war ("The Kremlin is inescapably militant"). Nitze supervised the preparation of NSC-68 as director of the State Department's policy planning staff. His desk was only a conference room away from that of his friend and boss, Secretary of State Dean Acheson. His office in Foggy Bottom today, its walls...
...mingled below the portrait of Abraham Lincoln? At the end, when Pianist Van Cliburn played Moscow Nights, Strauss thought he saw a bit of mist in the eyes of the Gorbachevs as they sang along. It was surely the most startling music in the East Room since Harry Truman played The Black Hawk Waltz...
...Harry Truman once compared "Uncle Joe" Stalin with Tom Pendergast, the Kansas City political boss: both were wily machine politicians who could be bargained with. Every President since then has been tempted to personalize America's unwieldy struggle with the Soviet Union. Even Ronald Reagan. Before dealing with Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva, the former president of the Screen Actors Guild said he was reminded of his days dealing with the old studio moguls. Last week, awaiting the arrival of the world's most unlikely new superstar, Reagan came up with an even more fitting personal analogy. "I don't resent...
Moreover, for all his talk about political courage, Simon has yet to demonstrate any when it comes to foreign policy. Despite his habit of comparing himself to Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy, Simon's views are more in line with the quirky fringe that's so critical in the lowa Democratic caucuses: huge cuts in military spending, no aid to the contras, U.N. handling of the Gulf crisis, an end to SDI research and an immediate ban on nuclear testing. These ideas are not all necessarily bad, but they are when the advocate, like Simon, has put forth...
...Smart ones understand," says the venerable Clark Clifford, 80, who has seen as much of the power game as anyone. Harry Truman, for whom Clifford worked in the White House, at first fought the forces around him; he severely embarrassed himself and the country before he understood he wasn't the only authority on the avenue. Clifford thinks that insofar as Reagan is concerned, it is too late. "President Reagan has become almost irrelevant. Powerful forces are moving ahead without him. In the economic field, he will be unable to recover. Our main goal now is to try to prevent...