Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (39 page)

General George Marshall and Secretary of State Dean Acheson, at a meeting to celebrate progress under the Marshall Plan, April 1950.
Harris & Ewing, National Archives
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Robert Taft (1.) and Thomas Dewey, opposing G.O.P leaders in the 1940s, put on a cooperative pose in July 1948, during Dewey's campaign for the presidency.
Acme Photo, Library of Congress
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Truman awards the Distinguished Service Medal to General Douglas MacArthur, Wake Island, October 1950.
Library of Congress
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General MacArthur (r.) confers with General Matthew Ridgway (2d. from left), near the front lines in Korea, January 1951. General Courtney Whitney, a top aide to MacArthur, is at left.
U.S. Army Photo, Library of Congress
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General Eisenhower, then NATO commander, hearing the news of MacArthur's dismissal, April 1951.
Stars and Stripes, Library of Congress
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U.S. Marines cover a just-flushed North Korean soldier, August 1950.
AP, Library of Congress
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Jackie Robinson, who broke the color line in Major League baseball, in 1947.
Bettmann
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Evangelist Billy Graham.
AP/Wide World Photos
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Elvis Presley, 1957. Bob Moreland,
St. Petersburg Times, Library of Congress
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Marilyn Monroe, posing for photographers during filming of
The Seven Year Itch
(1955). Matthew Zimmerman,
AP/Wide World Photos
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The Consumer Culture: Automobiles. U.S.
News
, August 1952,
Library of Congress
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The Consumer Culture: Electronics—the rise of the transistor.
Look
, July 1962,
Library of Congress
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Senator Joe McCarthy, March 1954. UP,
Library of Congress
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