The President made similar remarks in an interview last month with CNBCâs Steve Liesman: âIf you think about where we were, Steve, when I came into office and where we are now, itâs pretty hard to find an economic measure where weâre not significantly better off.â.
The Truman Doctrine was a United States foreign policy designed to contain Communism by stopping its spread to Greece and Turkey. Gaining the support of the Republicans who controlled Congress, President Harry S. Truman proclaimed the Doctrine on March 12, 1947.
Thus Truman s Speech overturned the Monroe Doctrine and led directly to the Marshall Plan. It set a precedent for the principle of collective security building up a network of allies and friendly states to which the US gave military aid free of charge and NATO. In America, it whipped up the Red Scare of the 1950s.