The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and Internal Security, 1946-1948

The Historical Presidency: Rethinking the origins of national security classification

“…The damage, however, had been done. Truman, having distanced himself from the draft, suspended the SAB's work on the classification order (Freeland, 1972;Ickes, 1947). 17 Superficially, that seemed to be the end of it.…”

“The right to voice your opinions”: A historical case study in audience members’ emotional hostility to radio journalists

“…I draw on the archival collections of Elmer Davis at ABC and Eric Sevareid at Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) to study a moment in American history when the so-called masses and the elite of the press were outof-sync: Truman's removal of MacArthur from his command. In 1951, the polity was already divided by McCarthyism, as the congressional investigations into communist subversion in US institutions-ongoing since the late 1930s-found a publicity-seeking champion in Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin (for more, see Freeland, 1971;Fried, 1990). McCarthy and his supporters were especially critical of the press (Alwood, 2007).…”