The Cold War continues: George F. Kennan, United states Minister-Counselor to the Soviet Union, sends an 8,000-word telegram to general of the army (five stars) George C. Marshall, former army chief of staff, warning of the confrontational, expansionist intentions of the Soviet Union.

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Subsequent Events:

Authority:

Article II, Section 2 [Clause 1]

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References:

James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 127-37.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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