The greatest of his contributions was to the Marshall Plan for rebuilding Western Europe, a program that echoed policy recommendations made in the Long Telegram.

NEWYORKER: Getting Real

It has sometimes been claimed that the Long Telegram was not news to most people in Washington, that it merely gave the Truman Administration an intellectual peg to hang its hat on.

NEWYORKER: Getting Real

This underestimates what the Long Telegram accomplished.

NEWYORKER: Getting Real

The Long Telegram was Kennan unbound.

NEWYORKER: Getting Real

Between 1926, the year he began his Foreign Service career, in Geneva, and 1946, when he made a heroic return from Moscow as the author of the primal document of Cold War foreign policy, the Long Telegram, Kennan lived mostly abroad.

NEWYORKER: Getting Real

No luck so far getting a radio deal or a traveling reporter from the Long Beach Press-Telegram.

FORBES: Entrepreneurs

The dominant Los Angeles Times, for instance, now faces an encirclement of MediaNews dailies that range from the Long Beach Press-Telegram in the south, the Pasadena Star-News and San Gabriel Valley Tribune to the east and the Daily News to the north.

FORBES: Where's Dean?

"Billy sent me a telegram - it was long before the days of emails!"

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