People - some people - even now are calling the US president that.
It was utter eyewash, back in the day.
It is even more vacuous, now.
Buckley, March 10, 1952, Dean Acheson's Record, in The Freeman.
A furious, relentless, one might say remorseless advocate, sometimes of intervention and rollback (Hungary), sometimes for impossible or anyway pointless containment (China, Korea, Vietnam), but always for war cold or hot, ideological, political, economic, or military, to extirpate communism throughout the world.
We could and should have skipped it.
As we could and should have done with both world wars, with every war our country has fought since the Revolution.
Talk about an inordinate fear of communism, real or feigned, reading the hysteria of this guy is quite something.
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