Cold warrior
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A cold warrior was a person involved in the shaping and executing of American and Soviet policy during the Cold War.
Cold warriors include both shapers of the Cold War and those who oversaw the decline of the Soviet Union. Notable figures include:
- Dean Acheson
- Richard M. Bissell, Jr.
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Patrick J. Buchanan
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
- George H. W. Bush
- Jimmy Carter
- John Foster Dulles
- Ho Chi Minh
- Chalmers Johnson
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- George F. Kennan
- John F. Kennedy
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Kim Il-sung
- Jeane Kirkpatrick
- Henry Kissinger
- William Lederer
- Curtis LeMay
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
- George Marshall
- Robert McNamara
- Richard Nixon
- Ronald Reagan - Notable for the Reykjavík Summit, & the Strategic Defense Initiative.
- Syngman Rhee
- Adlai Stevenson
- Maxwell D. Taylor
- Margaret Thatcher
- Harry Truman - Notably for the Truman Doctrine and the Korean War
References
- Brands, H. W. Cold Warriors. Eisenhower's Generation and American Foreign Policy (1988).
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