From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are ...

George Marshall remains the epitome of understated ... Sherman the more prone to all sorts of such addictions. Harry Truman talked too much. He swore. He drank. He played poker.

Such flattery usually sounds insincere or ridiculous, but not when applied to George Catlett Marshall ... In November of 1945, President Truman made Marshall his personal representative to ...

Truman’s support for the Marshall Plan and NATO demonstrated his belief that American leadership should be rooted in principle, not mere transactionalism or brute force. He recognized that the ...

Truman acted aggressively to secure territories ... In a different approach, the U.S. secretary of state, George Marshall, proposed a "European Recovery Program," known as the Marshall Plan ...