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Truman's Defining Test: The Korean War

In: The Economics of A Populist President

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In springtime 1948, the President was in good high humor, cheerful, chipper, but also very busy. Among new appointments he named Perle Mesta to be the new minister to Luxembourg, an appointment of no great importance but remembered fondly because it inspired a hit Broadway musical, Call Me Madam, with music by Irving Berlin and starring Ethel Merman…

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  • E. Ray Canterbery, 2014. "Truman's Defining Test: The Korean War," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: The Economics of A Populist President, chapter 10, pages 165-182, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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