he appeared before a joint session of Congress and laid out what become known as the Truman Doctrine: It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted ...

Perhaps World War III. And so begins the story of the Truman Doctrine, what Joe Scarborough frames in his bold and highly readable new book, “Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight ...

Wallace also struggled with the Truman Doctrine of 1947, which was aimed at containing the threat of Soviet expansion. The doctrine was a red line for the former VP. “[It] constituted the ...

His Marshall Plan, the founding of NATO and the Truman Doctrine — a title he hated — are all still key pieces of how the U.S. conducts itself overseas. All were designed to combat the dual ...

“The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, integrating the Armed Forces, all of these huge decisions he made.” Truman’s birthday, May 8, also coincides with VE Day, the end of World War II in ...

President James Monroe warned that Europe should stay out of the Americas, creating the Monroe Doctrine. President Harry Truman pledged U.S. support to governments opposing authoritarians ...

The Truman Doctrine, as it became known, led to the establishment of NATO and, later, US involvement in conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. But, as Bridget Kendall discovers, the speech and the policy ...

Conrad Black is a respected conservative who has written interesting books, including a very good biography of Richard Nixon, and who hasn’t succumbed to the Trump Derangement Syndrome that ...