![]() Especially for those parts of the story that I didn’t myself see unfolding, I have leaned heavily, with posthumous thanks, on his version of the whos and whats and whys. Cold War and Common Sense, he called it – and indeed his book is not only readable history but full of common sense, about matters which were most uncommon and often nonsensical. ![]() ![]() Shortly before we joined forces in the State Department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs, Tom had almost finished a vignette of history, which was published in 1962. I was fortunate to work, during the 1960s, with a superlative writer named Thomas W. What I will try to do is something in between - an essay about this fascinating almost-half-century – not just what happened,īut why, and especially why it came out the way it did. I was of course an eyewitness to bits and pieces of the whole period we call the Cold War - but don't look for fragmentary anecdotes which would not do justice to the serious purpose of this symposium. NOTE: I am not a historian, so don't look for dispassionate recording of the Cold War in what follows. The National Archives and Record Administration
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