Envoy and architect of U.S. cold war policy From: International Herald Tribune | Date: March 19, 2005| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Tim Weiner and Barbara Crossette
International Herald Tribune
03-19-2005
George Kennan, the American diplomat who did more than any other envoy of his generation to shape U.S. policy during the cold war, died on Thursday in Princeton, New Jersey. He was 101.Kennan was the man to whom the White House and the Pentagon turned when they sought to understand the Soviet Union after World War II. He conceived the cold war policy of containment, the idea that the United States should stop the global spread of communism by diplomacy, politics and covert action by any means short of war.As the State ...

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