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- [1989] (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Clark McAdams Clifford, Special Counsel to US President Harry S Truman, 1946-1950, and US Secretary of Defense, 1968-1969, relating to the Truman Doctrine, the provision of US military and economic aid for any country threatened by Communism, Mar 1947; the Marshall Plan, the US Foreign Assistance Act to aid European Recovery after World War Two, 1948; the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 1947-1948; the Communist coup d'etat in Czechoslovakia, Feb 1948; the Berlin airlift, Germany, 1948-1949; the deployment by US President Truman of nuclear capable Boeing B-29 Superfortresses to US bases in the UK during the Berlin airlift crisis, 1948; the US Presidential election campaign, 1948; the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), 1949; US President Truman's reaction to the detonation of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, USSR, Aug 1949.
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