The Cold War continues: Paul H. Nitze, Director of Policy Planning for the department of state, submits National Security Council policy paper 68 to Democratic (socialist/fascist) President Truman, urging a large expansion in the United states’ budget for foreign military aggression, development of the hydrogen fusion bomb and military aid to kleptocratic (government by thieves) dictatorships “to check and roll back the Kremlin’s drive for world domination.”

       [added 9/1/2022]

Subsequent Events:

5/8/1950                   6/25/1950                    7/11/1955

References:

James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 185.

David McCollough, Truman, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), 771-73.

NSC 68 – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSC_68

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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