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George Kennan and the Policy of Containment

By Daniel Schorr
Published March 17, 2005 at 10:00 PM MST

George Kennan, architect of the U.S. Cold War policy of communist "containment," is dead at the age of 101. Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr reflects on Kennan's remarkable -- and initially anonymous -- contribution to American foreign policy.

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Daniel Schorr passed away on Friday, July 23, 2010. See an obituary, photo gallery and an archive of Schorr's commentaries for NPR.