[Fiji Hill]

Today is the 70th anniversary of Dulles' "Massive Retaliation" speech, as the press dubbed it. What Dulles was actually announcing was that the US would be more resolute in opposing Communist aggression than the previous Democrat administration had been, yet at the same time be selective in our commitments and avoid what were then called "no-win wars," which are today called "forever wars." Subsequent Republican presidents, including Nixon and Trump similarly took selective approaches to dealing with threats.

Dulles probably chose January 12 because it was the anniversary of Secretary of State Dean Acheson's infamous "Perimeter" speech in which he outlined America's defensive perimeter in Asia but left out South Korea, which many critics believed was an invitation for Stalin to invade that country.

[cowboyusa]

McCarthy called Achinson, “ that stripe pants a- hole.”

[DesertRhino]

Dulles was the type Eisenhower was referring to in his farewell speech warning.

[cowboyusa]

Eisenhower was NOT a fiscal Conservative by the standards of the time, Golwater called his Administration, “ A dime store New Deal.”

[Albion Wilde]

In a speech at a Council on Foreign Relations dinner in his honor, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announces that the United States will protect its allies through the “deterrent of massive retaliatory power.”

Back in the day when this country still cared about freedom.

On a lighter note, here's this:

Carol Burnett sings I Made a Fool of Myself over John Foster Dulles