The foreign policy has been inaugurated by the President of the United States, and carried out by the Secretary of State, and nobody else.
Harry Truman: “The foreign policy has been inaugurated by the President of the United States, and carried out by the Secretary of…”
On the recordJanuary 6, 1949
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