With no actual military action during his presidency, President Reagan urged the Russian Dictator Mikhail Gorbachev to start giving up power, asking him to "tear down this wall", referring to the wall in Berlin" (Mann 37). ...
In it, he described Soviet power as scattered and dangerous, and claimed that it must be contained. ... Through Truman's use of economic aid to suffering european countries, establishing military links with pro-democratic nations, and his firmness when responding to threatening soviet acts, Truman handled the soviet threat to the best of any presidential ability. ... This firmness towards Stalin had begun years before in 1945 when the U.S demonstrated its nuclear power upon Japan. ...
This apprehension, an overestimation of American power, and an underestimation of Vietnamese communist strength locked all administrations from 1950 through the 1960s into a firm anticommunist stand in Vietnam. ... With a presidential election approaching, Lyndon B. ... He chose a middle course that vastly escalated U.S. involvement but that stopped short of an all-out application of American power. ...
Lynn Boyd Hinds and Theodore Otto Windt Jr. in their book the Cold War as Rhetoric viewed the Truman Doctrine as neatly thought out and very necessary to increase both Truman and the United State's authority as a world power. ... This gave Truman the Democratic nomination and now all he had to do was worry about his presidential opposition. ... Regardless once again to what side you agree with regarding the actions of Truman during the first years of the Cold War, it is the actions and decisions of Truman and his presidential advisors that will lead the United States into its next gre...
Not only was he effective in his presidential position, but he was also a good military chief, politician, and leader. ... " The Soviet Union was willing to have a Four-Power meeting between themselves, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. ...
They were so far ahead of all the other countries in power and influence that they were called "superpowers". ... They now realised that they now had the power and resources to play a large part of world affairs. ... He knew in future disagreements; Russia would have little room to argue due to the overwhelming power of the US. ...
AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. ... Many Black leaders had sided with Kennedy in the presidential race because Kenne...
RFK, referring to a meeting between himself, JFK, Special Assistant to the President Ken O'Donnell, and Presidential Counsel Ted Sorensen wrote, "Neither side wanted war over Cuba, we agreed, but it was possible that either side could take a step that- for reasons of "security- or "pride- or "face-- would require a response by the other side, which, in turn, for the same reason of security, pride, or face, would bring about a counterresponse [sic] and eventually an escalation into armed conflict-[p.40]. ...
Safer added the following commentary at the end of the piece: "There is little doubt that American fire power can win a military victory here. But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of backbreaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side" (Hammond 59). ...
Carter was a very able negotiator; in 1978 he met at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland with the Israeli prime minister and the Egyptian president to discuss the framework for peace between Egypt and Israel. ... During the mid 1980s Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the USSR. ...
