Tag: chiang kai-shek
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Free to Be You and Me: The Story of the “Freedom Manifesto”

In 1949, a Memphis newspaper editor proposed a statement of principles for democratic societies. With democracy under threat today, what can we learn from it?
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Never Get Involved in a Land War in Asia: Kefauver and the Formosa Crisis

Estes Kefauver died before America got heavily involved in the Vietnam War. But we can envision how he would have reacted based on his reaction to another Asian conflict: the Formosa crisis of 1955.