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Dean Rusk served as Secretary of State for eight controversial years, from 1961 through 1969, when public discomfort over his…
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Codename: Operation Eastern Exit. In January 1991, violence due to the Somali Civil War had escalated so much that Ambassador…
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After attempting to convince Washington that a civil war in China was imminent and that the Communists would be the…
Oliver North is a former United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel who served as a National Security Council staff member during the Iran–Contra affair, a political scandal involving…
On November 1st, 1952 the United States detonated the world’s first hydrogen bomb on a large atoll called Eniwetok in…
The 444-day-long Iran Hostage Crisis ranks as one of the most traumatic diplomatic events in U.S. history and even thirty…
The life of Constance Ray Harvey at times sounded like something from the movie Casablanca. During World War II, after tours in…