Wilson Miscamble spoke on the foreign policy initiatives of President Harry Truman. Topics included the transition from President Roosevelt, use of the atomic bomb, and President Truman's policy ...

Jonathan Chait considers Truman as a model for how Hillary Clinton might govern, and then says this:. It is impossible to predict how Clinton will handle foreign policy, but it is not fanciful to ...

Center for American Progress. RELEASE: Today’s Foreign Policy Debates Could Stand to Take a Look at Truman’s Legacy Share ...

Truman's expansion of containment doctrine into a policy to be pursued globally had long-lasting, pernicious effects on U.S. foreign policy that would last until the end of the Cold War.

Upon entering office, Barack Obama knew little about foreign policy. But then neither did Vice President Harry S. Truman when Franklin Delano Roosevelt died suddenly on April 12, 1945. President ...

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

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.

The Truman Doctrine meant global military assistance on a scale never before seen. Since 1947, America has fought more foreign wars than any other nation.

The foreign policy of the United States hasn’t seen a strategic crisis this profound since 1947, when President Harry Truman summoned the American people to fight Soviet ambitions in Europe.