Tag: john foster dulles
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“Seventeen Days to Victory”: Democrats’ Televised Hollywood Spectacular

A couple weeks before their landslide loss, the Stevenson-Kefauver campaign held a star-studded coast-to-coast gala event. Was it a waste of money… or a preview of future campaigns?
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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.
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The Past is a Foreign Country: Decoding an Old Political Poster

I decipher an anti-Eisenhower poster from 1956, showing how many issues that seem vitally important in their day will ultimately be forgotten by history.