His ideas on Soviet containment were first expressed in what is considered to be the most famous cable in US diplomatic history, his 5, 542-word "Long Telegram" from his posting at the US Embassy in Moscow in 1946.

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In fact, this amounts to one of the greatest diplomatic frauds in history.

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He has a PhD from Yale in diplomatic and military history.

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Aside from downgrading our military production to dangerous levels while in office, these three people were also part of the staff that oversaw the lowest retention rates in military history, as well as dozens of diplomatic failures.

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In the History Department, no course is devoted to American political, military, diplomatic or intellectual history the only ones available are organized around some aspect of race, class, gender or sexuality.

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We are pursuing a policy that includes incredibly intense punitive sanctions, unprecedented in history against Iran, of sanctions that are in place as a result of diplomatic work that has created an international consensus that did not exist prior to President Obama taking office and that has resulted, again, in unprecedented pressure and isolation for the regime in Tehran.

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"There was a feeling in Canada that it had to be done, " said Alan Henrikson, a professor of diplomatic history at Tufts University.

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While there is time and space, we believe, for the diplomatic course to be pursued in conjunction with increasingly stringent sanctions that are already the most stringent ever in history, we know, too, that there is not unlimited time.

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