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Marshall Plan
Secretary Of State George C. Marshall received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at the Harvard commencement exercise on the morning of June 5, 1947. That afternoon he spoke to a group of alumni. His message was short and grim. Read more >>
The “conversion” of Arthur Vandenberg, told by a former Secretary of State, his sometime adversary but also his friend