The partisan sniping of today’s Congress closely resembles that of the late 1940s and early 1950s, when hard-line Republicans made foreign policy central to their attacks on President Harry Truman.

Undoubtedly, Truman profoundly shaped US foreign policy during 1945-53, and had great success regarding postwar reconstruction in Europe and Japan.

From the ashes of World War II, President Harry Truman helped create global institutions that have defined international order. President Trump is moving aggressively to scale back that U.S. role.

Truman gives foreign policy address during Cold War. U.S. President Harry S. Truman addresses Americans on aid to U.S. allies, in Washington on March 6, 1953.

He was also a non-partisan on foreign policy issues; a far cry from Truman or the presidents who would follow in his footsteps. As Sean Kay, a professor at Ohio Wesleyan University ...

From Truman to Trump, Harvard Professor Joseph S. Nye on whether presidents have followed morals in America's foreign policy.

Another major step came in 1949 when President Truman signed legislation bringing the vice president into the National ... Reflecting on the role of the vice president in U.S. foreign policy, ...

American presidents are supposed to have a grand theory of foreign policy — a proper doctrine, like Harry Truman and James Monroe and all their imitators — because how else would we categorize ...

Truman already knew that this “junior professor at Harvard,” as Kissinger described himself with coy modesty in his book Diplomacy, was a rising star of the foreign-policy establishment.