Quote Of The Day....

"no people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies."

Secretary of State, Dean Acheson. life long Democrat and Secretary of State under Harry Truman

Acheson...

...he played a central role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War. He likewise played a central role in the creation of many important institutions, including Lend Lease, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank, together with the early organizations that later became the European Union and the World Trade Organization. His most famous decision was convincing the nation to intervene, in June 1950, in the Korean War.