1893-1976
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(372) documents
1884- 1972
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1879- 1953
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1883- 1954
1901- 1988
1899- 1953
1895- 1978
November 17, 1945
TASS reports on a Le Pays article that cites Molotov on Soviet reservations about a meeting between the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union in London following an Anglo-American conference.
November 28, 1967
Harry Truman dismisses the request from Father Paul White to build a hospital in South Korea bearing Truman's namesake.
June 8, 1945
Harriman updates the President on the adverse relations between the USSR and the United States; observes that Stalin cannot understand the United State's interest in establishing an independent Poland.
June 27, 1950
Truman's statement on the invasion of South Korea by North Korean forces.
April 14, 1950
On US national security policy at the beginning of the Cold War. Includes an assessment of the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as US and Soviet nuclear weapons capabilities.
March 12, 1947
Truman's speech to Congress in which he laid the foundations of the Truman Doctrine by stating that the United States would support Greece and Turkey in order to prevent them from under the sway of the Soviet Union. This speech is often cited as the beginning of the Cold War, and US containment policy.