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16 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman The 33rd president who framed the Cold War with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan Government and administration · United States state institutions 1884–1972
John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles An American diplomat who drove the Cold War through alliance-building Diplomacy and international organization · United States state institutions 1888–1959
Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower The five-star general who led D-Day and warned America against the military-industrial complex Military command · United States state institutions 1890–1969
Edward Mallory Almond Edward Mallory Almond A U.S. general whose offensive command was bound to racial prejudice Military command · United States state institutions 1892–1979
Allen Dulles Allen Dulles The American intelligence official who institutionalized covert war Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions 1893–1969
Oliver P. Smith Oliver Prince Smith A Marine commander whose caution helped save a surrounded division Military command · United States state institutions 1893–1977
Mark W. Clark Mark W. Clark An Allied commander caught between military gains and civilian cost Military command · United States state institutions 1896–1984
George F. Kennan George F. Kennan The American diplomat and historian whose 1946 Long Telegram and X article laid the intellectual foundations of containment Scholarship and theory 1904–2005
Curtis E. LeMay Curtis LeMay The Air Force general who firebombed Japan and urged nuclear war on his adversaries Military command · United States state institutions 1906–1990
Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson A Cold War president caught between reform and war Government and administration · United States state institutions 1908–1973
Edward Geary Lansdale Edward Lansdale The Mongoose architect whose six-phase Cuba overthrow plan convinced the Soviets invasion was coming Security, intelligence and policing · United States state institutions 1908–1987
Ronald Wilson Reagan Ronald Reagan The Cold War's last American president, who genuinely believed in nuclear abolition but would not yield on SDI Political and party leadership · United States state institutions 1911–2004
Richard Milhous Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon The Cold Warrior who opened détente with Moscow and Beijing, then became the only U.S. president to resign Government and administration · United States state institutions 1913–1994
William Westmoreland William Westmoreland US Army general who commanded American forces in South Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 and pursued a strategy of attrition measured by body count Military command · United States state institutions 1914–2005
Robert McNamara Robert McNamara The quantitative defense secretary who led the Vietnam War and helped prevent nuclear war in the Cuban Missile Crisis Government and administration · United States state institutions 1916–2009
John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy The youngest U.S. president, who took the world to the brink of nuclear war and back Government and administration · United States state institutions 1917–1963