Harry Truman is definitely a man of times passed, rarely refusing an autograph or picture, taking advice of locals, and at one stop in Frostburg at a place called the Princess, they were having lunch when the owner George Pappas asked Mr. ... When the need for someone to oversee a major humanitarian issue arose, Truman called on former president Herbert Hoover, who was so successful that Truman undid what had been done by FDR, "On April 30, 1947, Truman undid one of FDR's more egregious slights against Hoover. ...
McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. ... George Kennan, at the time the Ambassador to the Soviet Union, wrote what is called his "Long Telegram." ...