George C. Marshall, the architect of the Marshall Plan that built peace and lasting economic growth in Europe, knew the ...

Such flattery usually sounds insincere or ridiculous, but not when applied to George Catlett Marshall ... In November of 1945, President Truman made Marshall his personal representative to ...

From the column: "Patriotic holidays (are) used to sanitize the past, justify war, and maintain military spending in the ...

George Marshall himself was said to be getting very interested in new counter-measures against the Chinese Communists. But when Truman needed (or thought he needed) a defense for firing MacArthur ...

As with many great men and women who gave extraordinary service to our nation, George Catlett ... 24 hours after Marshall retired from the Army he was asked by President Harry Truman to accept ...

At the White House on October 3, 1949, President Harry Truman, left, congratulates Gen. George Marshall (architect of the Marshall Plan) after the former secretary of state became chairman of the ...

Truman Legacy of Leadership award, Senator Roy Blunt. Recently retired from the U.S. Congress, Senator Blunt recounted that then-Secretary of State George Marshall had told Truman that he was so ...

From 1945 to 1947, Truman’s immediate post-war policy on China was a bid, led by Gen. George Marshall, to broker a power-sharing arrangement between Mao Zedong’s Communists and Chiang Kai-shek’s ...

Truman made the call on May 14 ... key U.S. officials including Secretary of State George C. Marshall opposed the creation of a Jewish state. But key adviser Clark Clifford argued for recognizing ...

Such flattery usually sounds insincere or ridiculous, but not when applied to George Catlett Marshall ... In November of 1945, President Truman made Marshall his personal representative to ...

GEORGE C. MARSHALL was U.S. Secretary of State and U.S. Secretary of Defense in the Truman administration. A five-star general, he served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army for the duration of World ...