Charles E. Bohlen person
also: Charles Bolin, Charles Boland, Charles Chip Bolin, Bolin, Boland
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Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed
Charles E. Bohlen documented
“I mean, he realized the subtleties of communist penetration and all that, but he didn't go along with a sort of blanket condemnation of people. The truth, however, is that Alan Dulles' groveling efforts to placate McCarthy not only encourag…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 29:08
Joseph McCarthy targeted_for_regime_change
Charles E. Bohlen documented
“To be his ambassador to the Soviet Union, McCarthy inevitably detected something amiss, a hint of homosexuality somewhere in his family. It turned out that the allegations involved his brother-in-law. Bolin was an upstanding member of the F…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 29:35
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It's written by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas. Yeah, I have that book. Okay. The six friends in the world they made, the six friends they talk about are Dean Acheson, who we've talked about, and he's got Bones connections through family. …
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deathly afraid of losing his job for which he had been groomed since boyhood, did everything he could to placate McCarthy. The elder Dulles observed the veteran diplomat Charles Chip Bolin was a man with one obsession, to remain Secretary o…
▶ 29:08
I mean, he realized the subtleties of communist penetration and all that, but he didn't go along with a sort of blanket condemnation of people. The truth, however, is that Alan Dulles' groveling efforts to placate McCarthy not only encourag…
▶ 29:35
To be his ambassador to the Soviet Union, McCarthy inevitably detected something amiss, a hint of homosexuality somewhere in his family. It turned out that the allegations involved his brother-in-law. Bolin was an upstanding member of the F…
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Eisenhower decided that this time he would take a stand. He recruited his rival, Senator Robert Taft, leader of the GOP's right wing, to help push Boland's nomination. But Foster remained a bundle of nerves throughout the Boland confirmatio…
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When Foster and Bolin were being driven to the nominee's Senate confirmation hearing, Foster awkwardly asked Bolin not to be photographed with him. Later, after Bolin was finally confirmed, Foster asked the new ambassador, who planned to fl…