1. American Exceptionalism in the Cold War (1947-1961)
As James Ceaser states "It is probably a truism of political speech that if one has trouble defining immediately what a term means, someone else is using it a different way.... One of the first points was Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech. ... The Saturday Evening Post suggested that the speech had contributed to "a new groundswell of opinion".23 This mindset carried through from one important speech to another. In April 1946 Truman delivered his army day speech. ... "25 In Truman's speech he made it known that "the United States would uphold the p...
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