Word: trumanism
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With a bit a cheating, one or more powers could overrun and withstand attack from the others. This would return us to the dark ages of the Cold War when Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower used or considered using nuclear weapons to decimate portions of the world population. In other words, threats by irrational dictators or other third parties could easily overwhelm a treaty between the U.S. and the USSR, returning the two nations to the frightening doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction...
...Harry Truman used to complain that he needed a "one-armed economist" because his advisers were always starting briefings with "On the one hand . . . but on the other hand . . ." Last week economists had to use both hands as they confronted a puzzling mixture of good and bad news...
...cozy wicker furniture on its gingerbread verandas, Grand Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was a place for artists and writers to relax and reflect in style. Graham Greene set part of his novel The Comedians at the hotel, and Sir John Gielgud, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and Mick Jagger were also guests...
American Presidents liked to use Harriman as their ambassador plenipotentiary. For Roosevelt, he helped maintain the often uneasy alliance with Stalin and Churchill during World War II. For Truman, he dealt with a cantankerous collection of European nations being rebuilt under the Marshall Plan. For Kennedy, he negotiated the Laos neutrality accords and the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963. For Johnson, he served as emissary to the Paris peace talks on Viet Nam in 1968. As late as 1976, when Harriman was 84, Democratic Presidential Nominee Jimmy Carter sent him to Moscow to give assurances to Leonid Brezhnev...
...World War II was winding down, Harriman was one of the first to warn of the Soviet threat to the U.S. After F.D.R.'s death in 1945, Harriman, then Ambassador to Moscow, hurried home to alert President Truman to what he called the "barbarian invasion of Europe." But like others from Wall Street who formed the core of the bipartisan foreign-policy establishment after the war -- and unlike more recent policymakers -- Harriman was not an ideologue who regarded the Soviets as an implacable "Evil Empire." As a banker and entrepreneur, he believed it was possible to deal with the Soviets...