Foreign Policy

The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty was a landmark diplomatic agreement between the United States and Great Britain that sought to regulate potential control and construction of an interoceanic canal across Central America. Signed in Washington by U.S. Secretary of State John M. Clayton and British diplomat…

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The job ran in the family; both his uncle and grandfather were Secretaries of State. Home life in a parsonage taught him piety, and the law precision. The rigid views of a world divided between good and evil he worked out, apparently, himself. Private letters and new taped recollections help explain the shaping of the man who set our Cold War foreign policy</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> United States policy, Henry Wallace said in his spirited challenge to Truman and Dewey in 1948, should be</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Why the UN was in trouble from the start</span></p>