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...geopolitics, even the best of friends sometimes fall out. Consider the case of the U.S. and Turkey, whose Prime Minister met with President Bush on Nov. 5. The U.S. initiated the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to provide Turkey and Greece with the economic and military support necessary to keep them out of the Soviet sphere of influence. Turkey fought side by side with the U.S. in the Korean War. And the two nations have been NATO allies since 1952. But recently the relationship has come under strain. First the U.S. Congress threatened to pass a controversial resolution condemning Turkey...
...make a lot of money and then do interesting things." So the longtime chairman of the board of the American Museum of Natural History--who turned away from his first love, physics, because he hated math--promoted science wherever he could. As an adviser to President Harry Truman, Golden helped create the National Science Foundation and came up with the idea of a presidential science adviser, a post that still exists...
...other candidates are not without their strengths, but they will not be perceived as tough because they lack the steel that only comes with experience. They will not be the ones who will bring the Democrats full circle to the days of Truman and Kennedy. And Hillary will do so as a woman, as the supposed nightmare of every gun-toting, white, male NASCAR fan. She isn’t the be-all, end-all, but her presidency will be transformative, not only for the Democratic Party, but for the sexual and regional divides that have so characterized our recent...
Sometimes the desire for a job makes a politician see the light. For the first two decades of his career, Lyndon Johnson was a New Deal liberal, with white Southern views on race (he called Harry Truman's early efforts on civil rights "a farce and a sham"). This combination made him a popular Texas Congressman and Senator, but he also wanted to be President. After a stumbling run as Texas' favorite son in 1956, he realized that his ambitions required him to change his profile on civil rights. The next year, after epic wheeling and dealing as Senate majority...
...Walt and Mearsheimer argue that previous American presidents, like Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, were much more evenhanded in dealing with Israel and its Arab neighbors. Only as the power of the lobby grew throughout the second half of the twentieth century, they contend, did American support for Israel increase alongside...