Buried Treasure: The Trials of Harry Truman (w/ Jeffrey Frank)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In March,1947 Harry Truman delivered to a joint session of Congress one of the most consequential foreign policy speeches ever given by a U.S. President. It was the speech in which Truman announced his plans to deliver aid to two embattled countries --Greece and Turkey-- threatened by instability and, as U.S. officials saw it, Communist subversion. Truman effectively was setting forth a new policy, committing the United States to assisting countries resisting aggression, or perceived threats of aggression, from Soviet Russia. It was dubbed the Truman Doctrine, and along with the Marshall plan, the creation of NATO and the Berlin Airlift, it created a global security architecture that is still very much with us and today 75 years later its shaping how Joe Biden is responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Jeffrey Frank, author of a new book The Trials of Harry Truman, joins to talk about how the the plain speaking president from Missouri came to roll out that policy – and the role it played then and continues to play today on this episode of Skullduggery’s Buried Treasure.
GUESTS:
- Jeffrey Frank (@JeffreyAFrank), Author of The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of An Ordinary Man
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)
RESOURCES:
- You can pick up Frank's book The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of An Ordinary Man - Here.
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| 0:44.7 | In Washington, the gravest international crisis since the war, |
| 0:48.2 | players into the opening. President Truman drives to the Capitol to report to an extraordinary |
| 0:53.2 | session of both houses of Congress on the growing problems in Greece and Turkey. |
| 1:01.9 | One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States |
| 1:07.2 | is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of |
| 1:12.3 | life free from coercion. This is more than a frank recognition that totalitarian regimes |
| 1:20.3 | imposed upon free peoples by direct or indirect aggression undermine the foundations of international |
| 1:27.9 | peace and hence the security of the United States. That was Harry Truman in March 1947, |
| 1:36.4 | delivering to a joint session of Congress, one of the most consequential foreign policy |
| 1:41.0 | speeches ever given by a U.S. President. It was the speech in which Truman announced his plans |
| 1:46.5 | to rush aid to two embattled countries, Greece and Turkey, threatened by instability and, as |
| 1:52.7 | US officials saw it, communist subversion. Truman effectively was setting forth a new policy, |
| 1:58.9 | committing the United States to assisting countries resisting aggression or perceived |
| 2:03.6 | threats of aggression from Soviet Russia. It was dubbed the Truman Doctrine, and along with |
| 2:09.0 | the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO and the Berlin Air Lift, it created a global security |
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