kennan & the necessary lie

[Brad De Long]

>
>You sure do.  The following is from the Library of Congress website:
>(http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/mars1.html):
>
>"The speech George C. Marshall delivered [at the Harvard University 
>commencement on June 5, 1947 proposing what came to be known as the 
>Marshall Plan] was drafted by Charles E. Bohlen, a State Department 
>official and future ambassador to the Kremlin. As its basis, he used 
>a memo prepared by a State Department Policy Planning staff directed 
>by Soviet-expert George Kennan as well as reports by other State 
>Department officials. Marshall then prepared the final version."
>
>Carl
>

Charlie Kindleberger says different...