Asked about the arms holdup, Trump pleaded ignorance. Regardless of whomever was responsible for this incompetence, the ...

Bush compared his reorganization to Truman’s 1947 National Security Act. “Truman recognized that our nation’s fragmented defenses had to be reorganized to win the Cold War,” Bush said.

Seventy years ago, Democratic President Harry S. Truman signed into law the National Security Act passed by a Republican Congress. No legislation in U.S. history more fundamentally altered the way ...

In 1947, after three years of debate and considerable controversy, Congress passed the National Security Act, which President Truman signed on July 26. That law unified the separate Army and Navy ...

The experiences of the Truman administration—when a president tried to balance policy and politics during a time of great international challenges—can inform today’s foreign policy debate.

Joe Scarborough’s “Saving Freedom” recalls how politicians in 1947 took the lead in fighting isolationism and redefining America’s role in the world.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. That’s from Reinhold Niebuhr’s 1943 “Serenity ...

Description. Author Roy Brownell discusses the Presidential Succession Act of 1947's applicability to the presidency of Harry Truman.

Seventy years ago, Democratic President Harry S. Truman signed into law the National Security Act passed by a Republican Congress. No legislation in U.S. history more fundamentally altered the way ...