Davies chose not to be disillusioned, and he and Kennan did not get along.
Each time a new Administration arrived in Washington, Kennan seems to have sat by the phone.
Kennan was attracted to the discipline this demanded, but it was a cause of endless frustration.
That Kennan lived near a town called East Berlin is not a cosmic joke.
Kennan was transferred, first to the Russia desk in the State Department, and then to Prague.
When Germany invaded Poland, in September, 1939, and the war began, Kennan was transferred to Berlin.
George Kennan, the scholar and diplomat, lectured at the National War College in the late 1940s.
Kennan put much of this in a long letter to Bohlen in the winter of 1945.
Harriman had left Moscow, and he gave Kennan his blessing to reply as he saw fit.
Characteristically, Kennan was ill, and he was lying in bed when he dictated it.
The Cold War became an arms race, exactly what Kennan had hoped to prevent.
George Kennan, a diplomat, eventually realised what was happening and wrote an eloquent memo.
He does make the reader work a little to construct an image of Kennan the person.
Great minds like Kennan and Oppenheimer helped win the Cold War and prevent World War Three altogether.
At a minimum, someone has to say the right thing, even if it gives people like Kennan hives.
Kennan wanted totalitarianism abolished, but he thought the United States could accomplish this largely by going about its business.
Kennan always believed that this was the moment when Stalin showed his hand.
Kennan was summoned to Washington and installed in the newly created National War College as Deputy Commandant for Foreign Affairs.
And, as someone who proposed policy rather than administered it, Kennan was susceptible to the standard fate of policy intellectuals.
Kennan, whose writings gave birth to the theory of nuclear deterrence, argued passionately but futilely against the development of the hydrogen bomb.
Kennan was so upset that he wrote Lippmann a long letter explaining his mistake, but could never bring himself to send it.
But Kennan resigned out of pique when he felt Kennedy had crossed him up by signing a trade bill that stigmatized Yugoslavia.
Throughout his life, Kennan was a prolific writer and an exceptional stylist, somewhat in the manner of his historian hero, Edward Gibbon.
Kennan was in charge of the hundred and thirty Americans, an experience he recalled with a degree of disgust extreme even for him.
Kennan gave counsel to the Administration during the Korean War, and was instrumental in setting up the covert-operations wing of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The telegram made Mr Kennan famous in Washington and his ideas were disseminated through a highly-influential article written under the pseudonym "X" published in 1947.
Why did Kennan resent his fame as the author of containment?
Kennan spent two years in Berlin, learning Russian at Friedrich Wilhelm (now Humboldt) University and taking classes in Russian history at the University of Berlin.
His sudden death, in 1943, left Kennan free to negotiate, face to face with Salazar, for the use of bases in the Azores by U.S. aircraft.
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