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The Courage to Debate

Whitaker, Urban | February 21, 1959 issue

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One way of describing how the Cold War has become an institution in the U.S. national life is to look at the behavior of an elected federal official. For instance, Senator Henry Jackson from Washington. The U.S. President had hardly unveiled the new budget when the Senator tore into it with a wide open bank book and billions of dollars worth of military ideas. Weapons production is, of course, only one aspect of the international political climate. Progress could be made by deinstitutionalizing the economy of the Cold War.

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COLD War; ECONOMIC history; BUDGET; WORLD politics; MILITARY weapons; UNITED States
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