I thought he literally tried to look into the Manhattan Project and was specifically told by the administration to back away from the inquiry. He knew it was something big just not what

I figured, the scenario is perfectly crafted for red scare styled attacks against Truman. The gist of the attacks were the Truman administration either through incompetence or communist influence were responsible for the Korean War.

Could the Korean War been avoided if Dean Acheson included Korea in list of countries that U.S. would protect in cases of communist aggression

Also liked his thoughts on Carter

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Also seeing the ideology background of imperialism movement in 1900. I can send the the debate in congress
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Just in case you want to pivot to Asia
AGAINST CHINESE EXCLUSION.: BASED ON PREJUDICE AND INJURES COMMERCE, SECRETARY TAFT SAYS. (1905, Jun 16). New York Times (1857-1922)

We even had Humphrey voting for the initial bill and then trying to kill when they tried to override the veto